polytope
A 3-dimensional w:Stasheff polytopeStasheff polytope
Meaning
Noun
- A finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes (a geometric shape with flat sides, existing in any number of dimensions); the geometrical entity represented by the general term of the infinite sequence "point, line, polygon, polyhedron, ...".
Related
Narrower meaning words
- polygon , polyhedron , polychoron , hypercube , simplex , tesseract
Origin
- From German Polytop, equivalent to poly- + -tope. Coined by Hoppe in 1882 and introduced to English by Alicia Boole Stott.
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