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nef.

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

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

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

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.

adj/nɛf/
  1. 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.

    not-comparable
Where this word comes from

Short for numerically effective; introduced by Miles Reid.

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