Home › Words › V › vielbeinvielbeinvielbein means A polyad (generalization of vierbein).EtymologyEquivalent to German viele (“many”) + Beine (“legs”).nounA polyad (generalization of vierbein)e.g.“This vielbein takes the role of the twist in conventional generalized Scherk-Schwarz compactifications.” — 2015, Pascal du Bosque, Falk Hassler, Dieter Lust, “Flux Formulation of DFT on Group Manifolds and Generalized Scherk-Schwarz Compactifications”, in arXiv:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.vierbein 58% match — Synonym of tetrad. vs vielbein →eigenvariety 55% match — A higher-dimensional generalization of an eigencurve. vs vielbein →affinor 54% match — A type of higher-order tensor used principally by Jan Arnoldus Schouten vs vielbein →quadrivector 53% match — Synonym of four-vector. vs vielbein →quadrivelocity 53% match — Synonym of four-velocity. vs vielbein →quadricovariant 51% match — a covariant of degree 4 vs vielbein →bivector 51% match — An antisymmetric tensor of second rank. vs vielbein →bibundle 51% match — A generalized bundle in a Lie group vs vielbein →