Möbius strip
Americannoun
noun
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A continuous one-sided surface formed by rotating one end of a rectangular strip 180° and attaching it to the other end.
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Compare Klein bottle
Etymology
Origin of Möbius strip
1900–05; named after A. F. Möbius ( def. )
Example Sentences
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As the interview unfolds, “Questioning” takes on the form of a Möbius strip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
“It’s almost an impossible construction,” Haviv said of the design, which twists around itself like a Möbius strip.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Imagine that “the Möbius strip was actually a hologram, a kind of ghostly graphical projection into three-dimensional space,” Schwartz says.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2023
In both this work and her captivating 2020 play “Stew,” a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, Howard writes her characters into a Möbius strip of trauma and injustice that is Black American history.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
But over the week I spent there in May, I found a city that operates like a sturdy Möbius strip, a system closed in on itself, yet mesmerizing in how it functions.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
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