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eel | rel |

As a noun eel

is any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.

As a verb eel

is to fish for eels.

As a preposition rel is

relative to.

eel

English

(wikipedia eel) (Anguilliformes)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
  • The European eel, .

    • Derived terms

    * African eel * cutthroat eel * conger eel * duckbill eel * eelboat * eelbuck * eeler * eelfare * eelfish * eelgrass * eelish * eellike * eelpot * eelpout, eel-pout * eelskin * eelspear * eely * electric eel * European eel * glass eel * Japanese eel * moray eel * mud eel * sand eel * sawtooth eel * slippery as an eel * snake eel * snipe eel * spaghetti eel * thin eel * worm eel

    See also

    * elver

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fish for eels.
  • To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    rel

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (mathematics) Relative to.
  • * 1994 , N[ikita] Netsvetaev, "Diffeomorphism Criteria for Simply Connected Even-Dimensional Manifolds", in, Oleg Viro, editor, Topology of Manifolds and Varieties , Advances in Soviet Mathematics [series] 18, [publisher], ISBN 0821841246, page 237,
    • Since M_0 and M_1 are cobordant rel boundary and f_0, f_1 are n -connected, the number \delta:=\frac12(\mathrm{rk} H_nM_0-\mathrm{rk}H_nM_1) is a nonnnegative integer.
  • * 1997 , Paul Selick, Introduction to Homotopy Theory , Fields Institute Monographs [series], [publisher], ISBN 0821806904, page 15,
    • The following notations are in common use: H:f\simeq g (rel A'') means that ''H'' is a homotopy rel ''A'' from ''f'' to ''g ....
  • * 2002 , , Algebraic Topology ], [[w:Cambridge University Press, Cambridge], ISBN 0521795400, page 355,
    • Then in n\ge n', there is a map h:Z\to Z' such that h, A=g and gf\simeq f'h rel' ''A'', so the diagram above is commutative up to homotopy '''rel ''A .

    Anagrams

    * ----