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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nappe  \Nappe\,  n.  [F.  nappe  cloth,  sheet.  See  {Napery}.]  (Geom.) 
  Sheet;  surface;  all  that  portion  of  a  surface  that  is 
  continuous  in  such  a  way  that  it  is  possible  to  pass  from  any 
  one  point  of  the  portion  to  any  other  point  of  the  portion 
  without  leaving  the  surface.  Thus  some  hyperboloids  have  one 
  nappe,  and  some  have  two 

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