Look up skein in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Skein /skeɪn/ may refer to: A flock of geese or ducks in flight A wound ball of yarn with a centre pull...
Skein relations are a mathematical tool used to study knots. A central question in the mathematical theory of knots is whether two knot diagrams represent...
yarn in skeins. Unlike other types of yarn balls, a skein allows you to access both ends of the yarn. The yarn end in the inside of the skein is called...
now called the Alexander–Conway polynomial, could be computed using a skein relation, although its significance was not realized until the discovery...
The Tangled Skein was Baroness Orczy's second novel. First published under the title In Mary's Reign in 1901,[citation needed] it was re-released under...
dead link] skein_NIST_CD_121508.zip Archived 10 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine on skein-hash.info, skein.c "Implementation of the Skein hash function...
Winding the Skein is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1878. Two canvases by Leighton were hung at the Royal Academy in 1878, the...
With a Tangled Skein is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony. It is the third of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. In it, Niobe agrees...
Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein, or Skeen; baptised 12 February 1790 – 27 September 1854) was a British-Canadian fur trader and an early...
Lilias Skene or Lillias Skein (8 November 1628 – 21 June 1697) was a Scottish Quaker preacher, prophet and poet. She was born in 1628 as Lilias Gillespie...
by Józef H. Przytycki and Paweł Traczyk. The polynomial is defined using skein relations: P ( u n k n o t ) = 1 , {\displaystyle P(\mathrm {unknot} )=1...
Walpole – from left to right, Charlotte (holding a skein of silk), Elizabeth (winding Charlotte's skein onto a card) and Anna (producing tambour lace). Exhibited...
bolts instead of stones. It was also known as a 'skein-bow', and was a torsion device using twisted skeins of silk or sinew to power two bow-arms. The springald...
Kazunoko (数の子), in Japanese cuisine, are the eggs or the ovaries (egg skeins) of the Pacific herring (Japanese: kazunoko nishin) that have been salted...
village its name. Various other transliterations and spellings (Skeen, Skin, Skein, Sk'in-pam) are also used to refer to the group. The Skinpah were extensive...
group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team, or a wedge; when flying close together, they are called a plump...
Threefish is a symmetric-key tweakable block cipher designed as part of the Skein hash function, an entry in the NIST hash function competition. Threefish...
cabler and already a global phenomenon after only one season, the fantasy skein was a gamble that has paid off handsomely." The second season was also well...
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