quasiregular
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having some regular characteristics.
adj
That is semiregular with regular faces of precisely two types that alternate around each vertex.
adj
Such that 1 − r is a unit (has a multiplicative inverse).
adj
That is the result of a required adjustment of an induced representation that would, unadjusted, give rise to (only) a quasi-invariant measure.
Example Sentences
- "The lattice points that lie in this plane are the vertices of the regular tessellation {3, 4} of equilateral triangles, and the other points just mentioned are the vertices of the quasiregular tessellation #92;begin#123;Bmatrix#125;3#92;#92;4#92;end#123;Bmatrix#125; of triangles and hexagons [9, p. 60]."
- "There are two quasiregular polyhedra not having identical regular faces: the cuboctahedron (dymaxion) and the icosidodecahedron."
- "2007, V. A. Blatov, O. Delgado-Friedrichs, M. O'Keeffe, D. M. Proserpio, Periodic nets and tilings: possibilities tor analysis and design of porous materials: Proceedings of the 15th International Zeolite Conference, Ruren Xu, Jiesheng Chen, Zi Gao, Wenfu Yan (editors), From Zeolites to Porous MOF Materials, page 1642, If we allow the coordination figure to be a quasiregular polyhedron (a polyhedron with one kind of vertex and edge, but two kinds of face) there is just one possibility compatible with translational symmetry – a cuboctahedron."
- "Two semiregular polyhedra are classified as so-called quasiregular polyhedra. They have two kinds of faces, and each face of one kind is entirely surrounded by faces of the other kind."
- "The element a can be uniquely represented in the form r + t, where [rt] = 0, t is nilpotent and r is a quasiregular element of G ([1]; p. 108)."
- "A onesided ideal is quasiregular provided that it consists of quasiregular elements."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Phrases
quasiregular polyhedron
quasi-inverse