nonacoptic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Self-intersecting.
Example Sentences
- "1999, Grünbaum, Branko, "Acoptic polyhedra", Advances in discrete and computational geometry (South Hadley, MA, 1996) (PDF), Contemp. Math., 223, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, pp. 163–199, doi:10.1090/conm/223/03137, MR 1661382. See Norgate [N2], where nonacoptic pentahedra are investigated as well."
Etymology
From non- + acoptic, introduced by the mathematician Branko Grünbaum to clarify terminology in the geometry of polygons and polyhedra. Initially he used the term coptic, but abandoned it in favor of nonacoptic in later writings.