nonorientable
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English
Alternative forms
- non-orientable
Etymology
From non- + orientable.
Adjective
nonorientable (not comparable)
- (topology) Not able to be oriented.
- The Möbius strip is a nonorientable surface.
- Through every point of a nonorientable surface there passes a Möbius-like nonorientable strip (with an odd number of half-twists) which is part of that surface.