Orientable Surface

orientable surface

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(mathematics)

A surface for which an object resting on one side of it cannot be moved continuously over it to get to the other side without going around an edge.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Orientable Surface

a surface that can be oriented. An orientable surface is the opposite of a nonorientable surface. On a nonorientable surface, for example, a Möbius band, there always exist closed curves such that the orientation of a small neighborhood of a point moving along the curve is reversed when the entire curve is traversed. The projective plane is an important example of a closed nonorientable surface.

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