adinkra

noun — 2 senses

adinkra

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Akan adinkra.

1

Any of a set of visual symbols representing concepts or aphorisms, originally created by the Akan of Ghana and the Gyaman of Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa, often used as artistic devices.

2

Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A graphical representation of supersymmetric algebras, consisting of coloured finite connected simple graphs that are bipartite and n-regular.

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