klein bottle

1. 1.

   a closed surface with only one side; formed by passing one end of a tube through the side of the tube and joining it with the other end

   Broadersurface

Questions about klein bottle

What does klein bottle mean?

klein bottle means "a closed surface with only one side; formed by passing one end of a tube through the side of the tube and joining it with the other end".

Is klein bottle a common word?

klein bottle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.