vielbein

English

Etymology

Equivalent to German viele (“many”) + Beine (“legs”).

Noun

vielbein (plural vielbeins)

1. A polyad (generalization of vierbein)
   • 2015, Pascal du Bosque, Falk Hassler, Dieter Lust, “Flux Formulation of DFT on Group Manifolds and Generalized Scherk-Schwarz Compactifications”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     This vielbein takes the role of the twist in conventional generalized Scherk-Schwarz compactifications.

Anagrams

• believin'