nonorientable

Adjective

Meaning

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.

Antonyms

Examples

Any connected sum involving a real projective plane is nonorientable. Source: Internet

The surfaces in the third family are nonorientable. Source: Internet

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