zweibein

See also: Zweibein

English

Etymology

Equivalent to German zwei (“two”) + Beine (“legs”).

Noun

zweibein (plural zweibeins)

  1. (photography) bipod
  2. (mathematics, physics) Synonym of dyad
    • 1992 August 31, Wolfgang Kummer, Dominik J. Schwarz, “Renormalization of R² gravity with dynamical torsion in d = 2”, in Nuclear Physics B, volume 382, number 1, →DOI, pages 171–186:
      Expressed in terms of zweibein and spin-connection, non-einsteinian gravity in d = 2 resembles a gauge theory with noncompact group and with nonpolynomial self-interactions.
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