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1. • • to remove a knot in something: He wearily unknotted his tie and threw it onto the chair. The tie had been knotted wrongly, which made it very hard to unknot.
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   What does unknot mean?

   • Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Can you solve 4 words at once? Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of UNKNOT is to undo a knot in. How to use unknot in a sentence.

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   What is an unknot knot?

   • This knot is actually an unknot! Imagine picking up the large loop that lays on top of the knot and untwisting it; you can easily form a simple closed circle: the unknot. Knots can be very deceptive. Our example very much looked like a trefoil, but yet, it was not.

   All Tangled Up: An Introduction to Knot Theory

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   Where did unknot come from?

   • The earliest known use of the verb unknot is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for unknot is from 1571, in a translation by Thomas Fortescue, translator and alleged sorcerer. unknot is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix2, knot v. unknit, v.

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   Why are knot invariants called unknots?

   • The most useful characteristics are called knot invariants because they are the same for any equivalent knots: the "Gordian knot" above, our trefoil-like knot, and the circular unknot would all have the same value for any knot invariant because they're all the unknot.

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   What does unknot mean on a trefoil?

   • In fact, you've already seen this concept. When we took the trefoil and redrew it so the upper-right crossing had the strings crossing in the opposite direction, that was a crossing switch. This is where the unknotting number of a particular knot comes in. It is the number of crossing switches it takes for a knot to become equivalent to the unknot.

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   How do you unknot a knot?

   • Thus, the process of unknotting is a series of crossing switches until the knot becomes equivalent to the unknot and one can just rearrange it (with R1, R2, and R3) into a simple closed loop. That's all there is to unknotting, and it sets up a really amazing application of knot theory.

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   There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb unknot. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   Apr 28, 2021 · This knot is actually an unknot! Imagine picking up the large loop that lays on top of the knot and untwisting it; you can easily form a simple closed circle: the unknot.

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   Nov 2, 2024 · Definitions of unknot. verb. become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of. synonyms: unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle. see more.

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   verb. un· knot ˌən-ˈnät. unknotted; unknotting. Synonyms of unknot. transitive verb. : to undo a knot in. unknot a rope. an unknotted tie. Examples of unknot in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web. These examples are automatically compiled from online sources to illustrate current usage.

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   uk / ˌʌnˈnɒt / us / ˌʌnˈnɑːt / Add to word list. to remove a knot in something: He wearily unknotted his tie and threw it onto the chair. The tie had been knotted wrongly, which made it very hard to unknot. Fewer examples. The ball of string had become a huge tangled mass, and I just couldn't unknot it.

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   Apr 28, 2012 · Choose a clasper decomposition of the knot or link (replacing it by the unknot, with some tangled web of claspers inside it), identify moves on claspers induced by moves on knots, and show that they suffice to untangle the web, by pulling leaves into standard positions.