dessin d'enfant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French dessin d’enfant (“child's drawing”).
Noun[edit]
dessin d'enfant (plural dessins d'enfant)
- (mathematics) A type of graph embedding used to study Riemann surfaces and to provide combinatorial invariants for the action of the absolute Galois group of the rational numbers.