Chapter 11. Shapes with More Than Two Entities
Some shapes involve more than two entities and two or more relationships. This chapter describes them:
Chicken feet in
Chicken feet out
Chicken feet across
Subordinates out
Subordinates across
Multiple to-be relationships
Multiple short paths
Shape: Chicken Feet In
If an entity has two or more degree-one links of one-many relationships, the entity participates in the chicken-feet-in shape—so named because there are many chicken feet touching the entity. The most common form of chicken feet in has three entities, as in Fragments 11-1 through 11-5.
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