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gel | rel |

As an initialism gel

is lari, the currency used in georgia.

As a preposition rel is

(mathematics) relative to.

gel

English

(wikipedia gel)

Etymology 1

Coined by in the mid 19th century as a clipping of (gelatin), from (etyl)

Noun

  • A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
  • Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
    • Derived terms
    * aerogel * hair gel * hydrogel * shower gel * silica gel * xerogel
    See also
    For more information on classification of colloids, see Wikipedia article on (colloid)s

    Verb

    (gell)
  • To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
  • To become a gel.
  • To develop a rapport.

    • See also

    * aerosol * colloid * emulsion * foam * sol

    Etymology 2

    Imitative of upper-class British pronunciation of (girl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A girl.

    • Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----

    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

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