"knight's tour" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: knight's tours [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} knight's tour (plural knight's tours)
  1. A sequence of positions on a chessboard, which sequence includes each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another.
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  2. A similar sequence on a board of any size or shape.
    Sense id: en-knight's_tour-en-noun-ZBf6D4fv

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