zweibein

See also: Zweibein

English

Etymology

Equivalent to German zwei (“two”) + Beine (“legs”).

Noun

zweibein (plural zweibeins)

1. (photography) bipod
2. (mathematics, physics) Synonym of dyad
   • 1992 August 31, Wolfgang Kummer, Dominik J. Schwarz, “Renormalization of R² gravity with dynamical torsion in d = 2”, in Nuclear Physics B, volume 382, number 1, →DOI, pages 171–186:

     Expressed in terms of zweibein and spin-connection, non-einsteinian gravity in d = 2 resembles a gauge theory with noncompact group and with nonpolynomial self-interactions.