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Quism vs Quim - What's the difference?

quism | quim |

As nouns the difference between quism and quim

is that quism is a quasi-isomorphism while quim is the female genitalia; the vulva.

As an adjective quim is

affectedly nice, prim.

quism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mathematics) A quasi-isomorphism.
  • * 1990 , Jan R, Strooker, Homological Questions in Local Algebra , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521315265, page 5:
    • Most authors speak of a quasi-isomorphism or quism , but Bourbaki's term is more descriptive.
  • * 1992 , Kathryn P. Hess, “Twisted tensor products of DGA’s and the Adams-Hilton model for the total space of a fibration”, in Nigel Ray and Spike Walker (editors), Adams Memorial Symposium on Algebraic Topology (proceedings of a July 1990 symposium), Volume I, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-42074-7, page 51:
    • Then the composition is a quism and therefore is an acceptable Adams-Hilton model for E.
  • *2000 , Alex Martsinkofsky, , Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra , Vol. 153 No. 1:
  • *:By [3], the vertical maps are quisms .
  • * 2002 , Martin Markl, Steven Shnider, James Stasheff, Operads in Algebra, Topology and Physics , American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-2134-3, page 201:
    • Since ?''? is a surjective quism , the ?-module ''K is acyclic.

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    quim

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva.
  • * 1879 , Anonymous, " No. 1:
    • For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
    The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim .
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses , page 938:
    • Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims ?
  • * 2005 , Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights (ISBN 1419952595), page 131:
    • Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.

    Etymology 2

    . Compare English (m).

    Adjective

  • (Ulster) Affectedly nice, prim.
  • (Ulster) Moving with ease and precision.

    • See also

    * (l)