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
- 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.