hexadecachoron
English
editEtymology
editFrom hexadeca- (“sixteen”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx, “six”), δέκα (déka, “ten”) and χώρος (khṓros, “room”).
Noun
edithexadecachoron (plural hexadecachorons or hexadecachora)
- (mathematics) A four-dimensional object analogous to an octahedron, constructed out of sixteen tetrahedra.
- 2005, V H Satheesh Kumar, P K Suresh, Are We Living in a Higher Dimensional Universe?[1], page 3:
- In a world with four spatial dimensions, for example, we can construct only six regular solids, viz pentatope, tesseract, hexadecachoron, icositetrachoron, hecatonicosachoron and hexacosichoron.
- 2009, P. Khavari, C. C. Dyer, Aspects of Causality in Parallelisable Implicit Evolution Scheme[2], page 7:
- 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.
- 2011, Jin Akiyama, Ikuro Sato, The element number of the convex regular polytopes[3], page 271:
- In four dimensions, surprisingly, there are three space-filling convex regular polychora: the tesseract (the hypercube in ℝ4), the hexadecachoron, and the icositetrachoron.
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editfour-dimensional object
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