nef

Meanings

Noun

• An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.

Adjective

• 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.

Related

Similar words

• cadenas

Origin

• Borrowed from French nef. nave, and nau.
• Short for numerically effective; introduced by Miles Reid.