Möbius strip

Meaning

Noun

• A one-sided surface formed by identifying two opposite edges of a square in opposite senses;
  a narrow strip given a half twist and joined at the ends, forming a three-dimensional embedding of said surface.

Related

Similar words

• Möbius band, Möbius loop
• twisted cylinder

Origin

• Named after August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), one of two German mathematicians—the other being Johann Benedict Listing (1808–1882)—who independently discovered the strip at the same time (1858).