schlegel diagram
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A projection of a polytope from n-dimensional space to n-1 dimensions through a point beyond one of its faces; especially such a projection (itself represented in 2 dimensions) of a 3- or 4-dimensional polytope.
Example Sentences
- "The location of the point x₀ can always be chosen so that the edges in the Schlegel diagram can be drawn as non-intersecting straight lines."
- "Schlegel diagrams are a useful way to explore how these polyhedra can be linked (Hoppe and Köhler 1988)."
- "These structures may all be represented on a planar surface by their Schlegel diagrams. A polyhedron Schlegel diagram is its networks of edges and vertices drawn in a special way: if you hold the polyhedron so close to your face that one of faces frames the entire polyhedron and you see all the other edges meeting inside that frame, then you have a Schlegel diagram."
Etymology
From Schlegel (“a surname”) + diagram, after German mathematician Victor Schlegel, who introduced the diagram in 1886.