sterication

An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its cells, its faces, its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each cell, each face, each edge and each vertex.

Noun

  1. An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its cells, its faces, its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each cell, each face, each edge and each vertex.

    Hypernyms: rectification

Origin

Coined by mathematician Norman Johnson from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “sold, firm, hard”) + -ation.

Forms

sterications

Related

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