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Brunnian link
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English
Etymology
Named after Hermann Brunn, whose 1892 article Über Verkettung included examples of such links.
Noun
en topology A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops.
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