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Fano vs Fank - What's the difference?

fano | fank |

As nouns the difference between fano and fank

is that fano is a non-singular complete algebraic variety whose anticanonical bundle is ample while fank is a pen for enclosing sheep.

fano

English

(Fano variety)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A non-singular complete algebraic variety whose anticanonical bundle is ample.

    • References

    * 1999 : A. N. Parshin, Igor? Rostislavovich Shafarevich, Algebraic geometry V: fano varieties *: Therefore the Mori program established the important role that fano varieties play in the birational classification of algebraic varieties. * 2007 : Alessio Corti, Flips for 3-folds and 4-folds *: Shokurov conjectures that a Shokurov algebra on variety admitting a weak fano contraction is finitely generated. ----

    fank

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pen for enclosing sheep

    • References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989 ----