orthoplex
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A convex polytope analogous to an octahedron (3 dimensions) or 16-cell (4 dimensions).
Example Sentences
- "We made use of another way of considering the 120 cells, starting with the eight at the vertices of an orthoplex, that is, in the cells of a hypercube."
- "It is remarkable that the four-dimensional orthoplex is the same polytope as the four-dimensional hemicube."
- "The combinatorics of this case apply to all members of the Gosset series; in every case, their cells are simplexes and orthoplexes, the latter appearing with only half symmetry."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Phrases
4-orthoplex
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