Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hexadecachoron

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hex-ade-ca-choron
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A four-dimensional object analogous to an octahedron, constructed out of sixteen tetrahedra.

Example Sentences

"In a world with four spatial dimensions, for example, we can construct only six regular solids, viz pentatope, tesseract, hexadecachoron, icositetrachoron, hecatonicosachoron and hexacosichoron."
"We have chosen the surfaces of a pentatope (5-cell) as well as a hexadecachoron (16-cell), which are simple standard triangulations of a 3-sphere, shown in figure (7), as our underlying lattices."
"In four dimensions, surprisingly, there are three space-filling convex regular polychora: the tesseract (the hypercube in ℝ⁴), the hexadecachoron, and the icositetrachoron."

Etymology

From hexadeca- (“sixteen”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx, “six”), δέκα (déka, “ten”) and χῶρος (khôros, “room”).

Word Breakdown

Prefix: hexadeca
Suffix: choron

Inflected Forms

hexadecachorons (plural) hexadecachora (plural)

Synonyms

16-cell

Questions

What does hexadecachoron mean?: A four-dimensional object analogous to an octahedron, constructed out of sixteen tetrahedra.
Where does hexadecachoron come from?: From hexadeca- (“sixteen”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx, “six”), δέκα (déka, “ten”) and χῶρος (khôros, “room”).

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