Girth may refer to:
Mathematics
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Girth (functional analysis) In functional analysis, the girth of a Banach space is the infimum of lengths of centrally symmetric simple closed curves in the unit sphere of the space. Equivalently, it is twice the infimum of distances between opposite points of the sphere, as ...
, the length of the shortest centrally symmetric simple closed curve on the unit sphere of a Banach space
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Girth (geometry)
In three-dimensional geometry, the girth of a geometric object, in a certain direction, is the perimeter of its parallel projection in that direction... For instance, the girth of a unit cube in a direction parallel to one of the three coordinate a ...
, the perimeter of a parallel projection of a shape
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Girth (graph theory)
In graph theory, the girth of an undirected graph is the length of a shortest Cycle (graph theory), cycle contained in the graph. If the graph does not contain any cycles (that is, it is a forest (graph theory), forest), its girth is defined to be ...
, the length of a shortest cycle contained in a graph
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Matroid girth
In matroid theory, a mathematical discipline, the girth of a matroid is the size of its smallest circuit or dependent set. The cogirth of a matroid is the girth of its dual matroid. Matroid girth generalizes the notion of the shortest cycle in a gr ...
, the size of the smallest circuit in a matroid
Music and entertainment
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''Girth'' (album), 1997 album by heavy metal band Winters Bane
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Girth (Pushing Daisies)
''Pushing Daisies'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC. It premiered in the United States on ABC on October 3, 2007; in Canada on October 2, 2007, on CTV; and aired in the UK on ITV.
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, an episode of the TV show ''Pushing Daisies''
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Girth (song)
"Coma" is a song by the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It is the final song on their album ''Use Your Illusion I''. At 10 minutes and 14 seconds, it is the longest track released by the band, and has no choruses.
Composition
Slash states that he ...
, the former name of the Guns N' Roses song "Coma"
Other
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Girth (tack)
A girth, sometimes called a cinch (Western riding), is a piece of equipment used to keep the saddle in place on a horse or other animal. It passes under the barrel of the equine, attached to the saddle on both sides by two or three leather straps ...
, a piece of equipment used to keep a saddle in place on a horse
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Girth (tree), measurement of the circumference of a tree trunk above its base
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