monohedron
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editEtymology
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editmonohedron (plural monohedrons)
- (geometry) A solid figure with a single continuous surface (face) and no edges, such as a torus or spheroid.
- 1972, Cyril Domb, M. S. Green, Joel Louis Lebowitz, Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena - Volume 9, page 112:
- This is a reflection of the fact that the monohedron collapses asymptotically to a line (along the w1-axis) when T -> Tt (t -> 0) (Widom, 1975c).
- (nautical) A type of hull that has a constant deadrise.
- 1961, John Teal, Fast Boats; a Guide to Speed Under Sail and Power, page 34:
- The beginner may be confused by old hands learnedly discussing the rival merits of monohedron and warped bottoms, so this matter will be cleared up first.
- (crystallography) A pedion.
- 2013, Boris K. Vainshtein, Fundamentals of Crystals, page 185:
- Then, in the above example, to RPS lying on the equator there corresponds a prism, to those lying outside the equator, a pyramid, and to the polar point, a monohedron.