fano

See also: Fano

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English

Noun

fano (plural fanos)

1. A non-singular complete algebraic variety whose anticanonical bundle is ample.

References

• 1999: A. N. Parshin, Igorʹ Rostislavovich Shafarevich, Algebraic geometry V: fano varieties

  Therefore the Mori program established the important role that fano varieties play in the birational classification of algebraic varieties.

• 2007: Alessio Corti, Flips for 3-folds and 4-folds

  Shokurov conjectures that a Shokurov algebra on variety admitting a weak fano contraction is finitely generated.

Anagrams

• ANFO, of an, ofan

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Latin

Noun

fānō

1. dative singular of fānum
2. ablative singular of fānum

References

• fano in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fano in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fano in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fanô, whence also Old English fana, Old Norse fani

Noun

fano ?

1. flag

Related terms

• gundfano

Descendants

• Middle High German: vane, van
  • German: Fahne
    • → Silesian: fana
  • Hunsrik: Faan
  • Yiddish: פֿאָן‎ (fon)