superslice

English

Etymology

super- +‎ slice

Noun

superslice (plural superslices)

1. (mathematics) A knot for which there is an almost identical trivial knot.
   • 2012, M.E. Bozhüyük, Topics in Knot Theory, →ISBN, page 69:

     The Kinoshita-Terasaka knot K_KT, illustrated in Fig. 1 is the first example of a superslice, which has been know at latest in 1970 by R.H. Fox, F. Hosokawa, T. Yangawa and others.

2. (computing) A slice that is an amalgamation of smaller slices.
   • 2010, Scott Hauck, André DeHon, Reconfigurable Computing:

     These transformations occur only if all bit slices within a superslice have identical context (e.g., all bit slice input ports a within a superslice have the constant value 0 applied from the outside). Otherwise, the superslice is left unchanged.

Adjective

superslice (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, of a knot) Having the property of being a superslice.
   • 2016, Daniel Ruberman, “On smoothly superslice knots”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Answering a question of Livingston-Meier, we find smoothly slice (in fact doubly slice) knots in the 3-sphere with Alexander polynomial equal to 1 that are not smoothly superslice..