What does 120-cell mean?

120-cell

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Frequency: 3.71 in modern English

Syllables: 120--cell
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A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a dodecahedron, whose 120 bounding facets are dodecahedra.

Example Sentences

"The triacontagonal projection of the 120-cell was first drawn by W. A. Wythoff, but not in reproducible form."
"In dimension four there are ten star polytopes which together with the 120-cell and 600-cell form the family of pentagonal polytopes (those regular 4-polytopes possessing axes of fivefold symmetry); all twelve have the same symmetry group."
"In 1985, M. Davis [3] gave the first explicit geometric construction of a closed hyperbolic 4-manifold by gluing together the opposite sides of a regular hyperbolic 120-cell P with dihedral angle 72°."

Inflected Forms

120-cells (plural)

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Davis 120-cell grand 120-cell grand stellated 120-cell great 120-cell great grand 120-cell great grand stellated 120-cell great stellated 120-cell small stellated 120-cell

Synonyms

dodecacontachoron dodecaplex hecatonicosachoron hecatonicosahedroid hyperdodecahedron polydodecahedron