hexacosichoron
/hɛksəɪkoʊsɪˈkoʊɹɔn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A four-dimensional object analogous to an icosahedron, constructed out of six hundred tetrahedra, arranged 20 to a vertex.
Example Sentences
- "Fig. 5 shows a polar representation of 5880 rotations generated by subsampling the hexacosichoron."
- "The present paper deals with a collection of 60 rays in a 4-dimensional real vector space represented by the vertices of a hexacosichoron (i.e. a 4-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron). Comment: the reviewer uses the word, the reviewed paper uses 600-cell only."
- "The hexacosichoron with an edge-length of 2φ⁻¹ could be constructed from the next permutations of its 120 vertices."
Etymology
From hexacosi- (“six hundred”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἑξακόσιοι (hexakósioi, “six hundred”) and χῶρος (khôros, “room”).