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Brae vs Brane - What's the difference?

brae | brane |

As nouns the difference between brae and brane

is that brae is the sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside while brane is a hypothetical object extending across a number of (often specified) spatial dimensions, with strings in string theory seen as one-dimensional examples.

brae

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland) The sloping bank of a river-valley; any slope or hillside.
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
    • Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
  • *1881 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, ''
  • *:Degged with dew, dappled with dew
  • *:Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through
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    brane

    English

    (wikipedia brane)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) A hypothetical object extending across a number of (often specified) spatial dimensions, with strings in string theory seen as one-dimensional examples.

    • References

    * Burgess & , "The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride", Scientific American , November 2007, pg. 57.

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