Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

4-polytope

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: 4-poly-tope
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A four-dimensional polytope.

Example Sentences

"Perhaps the most obvious next step is to investigate 4-polytopes with respect to symmetry equivalence."
"The situation for 4-polytopes is fundamentally different from that for 3-dimensional polytopes. One reason is that there is no similar reduction of 4-polytope theory to a combinatorial (graph) problem."
"For d = 4, Hamiltonian cycles in the regular 4-polytopes are known to exist. However, it seems that so far no decision about the existence or non-existence of 1-Hamiltonian surfaces in the 2-skeleton of any of the three sporadic regular 4-polytopes can be made, compare [120]."

Etymology

From 4-dimensional + polytope.

Inflected Forms

4-polytopes (plural)

Synonyms

polycell polychoron polyhedroid

Questions

What does 4-polytope mean?: A four-dimensional polytope.
Where does 4-polytope come from?: From 4-dimensional + polytope.

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