Ret vs Rel - What's the difference?
ret | rel |
To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
* 1989 , (Keith Bosley), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala , XLVIII:
* 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 621:
retired
(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,
* 1997 , Paul Selick, Introduction to Homotopy Theory , Fields Institute Monographs [series], [publisher], ISBN 0821806904, page 15,
* 2002 , ,
As a noun ret
is net.As a preposition rel is
(mathematics) relative to.ret
English
Etymology 1
Precise origin uncertain; perhaps related to Middle Dutch ).Verb
(rett)- the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].
- the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring
Derived terms
* retterEtymology 2
Abbreviation.Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* * ----rel
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- Since and are cobordant rel boundary and are n -connected, the number is a nonnnegative integer.
- The following notations are in common use: (rel A'') means that ''H'' is a homotopy rel ''A'' from ''f'' to ''g ....
Algebraic Topology ], [[w:Cambridge University Press, Cambridge], ISBN 0521795400, page 355,
- Then in , there is a map such that and rel' ''A'', so the diagram above is commutative up to homotopy '''rel ''A .