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nef

/nɛf/ · noun

Meaning

  1. An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
  2. Of a line bundle on a complete algebraic variety over a field: such that the degree of its restriction to every algebraic curve in the variety is non-negative.

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