dunce cap

English
A child wearing a dunce cap.

Noun

dunce cap (plural dunce caps)

  1. A conical hat one pupil is forced to wear to indicate he is a dunce.
  2. The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.

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