sheaf
IPA: ʃˈif
noun
- A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- Any collection of things bound together.
- A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- (mechanical) A sheave.
- (mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.
verb
- (transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
- (intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
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Examples of "sheaf" in Sentences
- She got the sheaf of roses.
- He pulled out another sheaf of papers.
- Learn to make a decorative wheat sheaf
- It is to offer a sheaf of the first barley on the second day.
- The datum of the space and the sheaf is called an affine scheme.
- Over the window in the attic is the sheaf from the Grosvenor arms.
- The sheaf of wheat symbolizes the Maelor's agricultural background.
- Then the sheaf axioms can be expressed as the exactness of the sequence.
- The crane held a sheaf of rice in its beak and presented it to the princess.
- A sheaf is a bunch of cut stocks of grain bound together with twine or straw.