"multitwist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Jeremy Telford, Balloonology, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "Twist both the 1\" bubbles in the multitwist into bear ears.",
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          "ref": "2016, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The multitwists of her black hair curtained like rivers down her frontal.",
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        "Multiple twists that occur together."
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          "text": "A Leininger-Reid subgroup cannot be convex cocompact, because it contains a multitwist.",
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        "An automorphism that induces a set of Dehn twists around a surface."
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        "(topology) An automorphism that induces a set of Dehn twists around a surface."
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