a sheaf of paper

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• sheaf — 1. noun a) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. O, let me teach you how to knit again This scattered …   Wiktionary

• paper — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 material ADJECTIVE ▪ thick, thin ▪ plain ▪ lined ▪ graph ▪ A3 …   Collocations dictionary

• sheaf — [ʃi:f] n plural sheaves [ʃi:vz] [: Old English; Origin: sceaf] 1.) several pieces of paper held or tied together sheaf of ▪ He laid a sheaf of documents on the desk. 2.) a bunch of wheat, corn etc tied together after it has been cut …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• sheaf — [ ʃif ] (plural sheaves [ ʃivz ] ) noun count 1. ) stems of grain that have been cut and tied together: a sheaf of wheat 2. ) a large number of pieces of paper that are kept together …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Sheaf (mathematics) — This article is about sheaves on topological spaces. For sheaves on a site see Grothendieck topology and Topos. In mathematics, a sheaf is a tool for systematically tracking locally defined data attached to the open sets of a topological space.… …   Wikipedia

• sheaf — UK [ʃiːf] / US [ʃɪf] noun [countable] Word forms sheaf : singular sheaf plural sheaves UK [ʃiːvz] / US [ʃɪvz] 1) stems of grain that have been cut and tied together a sheaf of corn 2) a large number of pieces of paper that are kept together …   English dictionary

• sheaf — plural sheaves noun (countable + of) 1 a bunch of wheat, corn etc tied together after it has been cut 2 several pieces of paper held or tied together …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• sheaf — [ʃiːf] (plural sheaves [ʃiːvz] ) noun [C] 1) a large number of pieces of paper that are kept together 2) stems of grain that have been cut and tied together …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• The Sheaf — is a student run newspaper serving the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan since 1912. A new issue comes out every Thursday (although with the 2006/2007 staff, faster completion and delivery of the paper typically sees it on… …   Wikipedia

• Injective sheaf — In mathematics, injective sheaves of abelian groups are used to construct the resolutions needed to define sheaf cohomology (and other derived functors, such as sheaf Ext .). There is a further group of related concepts applied to sheaves: flabby …   Wikipedia

• Perverse sheaf — The mathematical term perverse sheaves refers to a certain abelian category associated to a topological space X , which may be a real or complex manifold, or a more general stratified space, usually singular. This concept was introduced by Joseph …   Wikipedia