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Pinch Point


A singular point such that every neighborhood of the point intersects itself. Pinch points are also called Whitney singularities or branch points.


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Weisstein, Eric W. "Pinch Point." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PinchPoint.html

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