Mazes
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=== What is a Maze? === | === What is a Maze? === | ||
| − | The Oxford English Dictionary offers two definitions: | + | ''The Oxford English Dictionary'' offers two definitions: |
<ul><li>A structure designed as a puzzle, consisting of a complicated network of winding and interconnecting paths or passages, only one of which is the correct route through; a labyrinth; (occas. in pl.) the windings of a labyrinth. Also (as in quot. 1903): a structure comprising two points joined by a single winding line much greater in length than the direct line between the two points.</li> | <ul><li>A structure designed as a puzzle, consisting of a complicated network of winding and interconnecting paths or passages, only one of which is the correct route through; a labyrinth; (occas. in pl.) the windings of a labyrinth. Also (as in quot. 1903): a structure comprising two points joined by a single winding line much greater in length than the direct line between the two points.</li> | ||
