nef

Meanings

Plural: nefs

Noun

An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.

Adj

Of a line bundle on a complete algebraic variety over a field: such that the degree of its restriction to every algebraic curve in the variety is non-negative.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.

Scrabble Score: 6

nef is not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionary
nef is not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
nef is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

nef is a valid Words With Friends word