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evert [ɪˈvɜːt] vb (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) (tr) to turn (an eyelid, the intestines, or some other bodily part) outwards or inside out [from Latin ēvertere to overthrow, from vertere to turn] eversible adj eversion n Evert [ˈɛvət] n
(Biographies / Evert, Chris(tine) (1954 F, US, SPORT AND GAMES: tennis player) Chris(tine). born 1954, US tennis player: Wimbledon champion 1974, 1976, and 1981; US champion 1975-78, 1980, and 1982 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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The trouble with these eversions, however, was that they consisted of a series of stages that didn't lead automatically from one to the next. This strategy allowed him to introduce corrugations--wavy bends--to make these shapes extremely pliable, gaining insights into how immersions maintain their smoothness during transformations such as eversions. In 1959, Smale, then a graduate student, proved an abstract theorem that indirectly leads to the proposition making sphere eversions possible. |
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