File:Borromean-cross.svg

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English: A "Borromean cross", which contains four Borromean rings configurations arranged in a cross shape. This means that no two circles are directly interlinked, and cutting the central loop frees the other four circles. This could be interpreted as a Christian symbol, since it combines the cross with the Borromean rings (often used as a symbol of the Christian Trinity). However, a similar design (not Borromeanly-linked) is found as a Japanese mon in Handbook of Design and Motifs (1950), and may be occasionally used as a neo-pagan "five worlds" symbol...
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Vector equivalent of Image:Borromean-cross.png based on Public Domain Postscript code (written by User:AnonMoos) on that image's description page:

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For other Trinity crosses, see Image:Cross-Bottony-Heraldry.svg , Image:Triquetra-Cross.png , Image:Celtic-Cross-Vodicka-decorative-triquetras-red.svg , and perhaps Image:Cross-Flory-Heraldry.svg .

For an indefinitely extended "Borromean chain-mail" pattern, see Image:Borromean-chainmail-tile.png .

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current04:57, 20 March 2022Thumbnail for version as of 04:57, 20 March 2022512 × 512 (800 bytes)TSamuel (talk | contribs)Lossless recompression via SVGOMG, vecta.io/nano, & Compress-Or-Die.com, & verified via SVGCheck
20:38, 1 February 2013Thumbnail for version as of 20:38, 1 February 2013395 × 395 (924 bytes)ACBahn (talk | contribs)optimized smaller file
10:18, 9 November 2006Thumbnail for version as of 10:18, 9 November 2006395 × 395 (11 KB)D235~commonswiki (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Borromean Cross |Source=based on Public Domain Postscript version by User:AnonMoos |Date=2006-11-09 |Author=Christoph Sommer |Permission=Public Domain }}

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