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Meaning of Kleinian | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to Christian Felix Klein (1849–1925), German mathematician.
  2. Of or pertaining to Melanie Reizes Klein (1882–1960), Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children.

Examples

“Prove that if a Kleinian group G does not contain parabolic elements and is isomorphic to the fundamental group of a closed orientable surface, then G is either quasi-Fuchsian or degenerate[…]”
“The second three months of life, the critical era in the Kleinian narrative, are marked by a shift from the paranoid to the "depressive" position produced by the infant's growing ability to integrate contradictory perceptions.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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