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流形

Mandarin · pinyin liú xíng

manifold (math.)

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流: liú · flow, circulate, drift; class
形: xíng · form, shape, appearance

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2–2 · liu2 xing2

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noun

(geometry) manifold
(literary) things of different and changing shape; everything

noun

(literary) (of things) to change and take shape

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