multitwist

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ twist.

Noun

multitwist (plural multitwists)

1. Multiple twists that occur together.
   • 1998, Textile Technology Digest - Volume 55, Issues 7-12, page 34:

     Yarns highlighted include wools, stretch yarns, metallics, textures, multicolored, and multitwists.

   • 2010, Jeremy Telford, Balloonology, →ISBN, page 122:

     Twist both the 1" bubbles in the multitwist into bear ears.

   • 2016, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor, →ISBN:

     The multitwists of her black hair curtained like rivers down her frontal.

2. (topology) An automorphism that induces a set of Dehn twists around a surface.
   • 2007, Athanase Papadopoulos, Handbook of Teichmüller Theory - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 407:

     A Leininger-Reid subgroup cannot be convex cocompact, because it contains a multitwist.

Adjective

multitwist (not comparable)

1. Characterized by multiple twists.
   • 1951, National Park Service Archeological Research Series, page 116:

     For multitwist cords, the symbol for direction of twist of the single yarns is given first, with each subsequent direction following in order.

   • 1976, Nuri Y. Olcer, Sam Lévin, Recoilless rifle weapon systems, page 10-28:

     In most recoilless rifle weapon systems, uniform rifling twist is used since it meets the desired requirements and is less expensive to manufacture than a rifle tube with multitwist rifling.

   • 1983, Craig Jones, Fatal attraction, →ISBN, page 286:

     There's not a dull moment in this . . . shocking tale of evil family ties by a psychologically perceptive writer who knows how to build up to a searing, multitwist ending the way a tornado gathers momentum.