sheaf
noun
- 1
A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- 2
Any collection of things bound together; a bundle.
“a sheaf of paper”
- 3
A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- 4
A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.
- 5
A sheave.
- 6
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.
Synonyms
verb
- 1
To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves
“to sheaf wheat”
- 2
To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
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