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24-cells

24-cells is the plural of 24-cell.

Meaning of 24-cell

Noun

24-cell (plural 24-cells)

  1. A four-dimensional polytope whose twenty-four bounding facets are octahedra and which has no three-dimensional analogue.
    • The octagonal projection of the regular 24-cell {3,4,3} reveals that the 24 vertices of this 4-dimensional polytope can be distributed as 16 + 8: the 16 vertices of the 4-cube γ₄ = {4,3,3} and the 8 vertices of its dual, the 16-cell β₄ = {3,3,4}. This view of the 24-cell is less well-known than the...1995, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, “Paper Three: Two Aspects of the Regular 24-Cell in Four Dimensions”, in F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Iviċ Weiss, editors...
    Synonyms:
    hyper-diamond, icositetrachoron, octacube, octaplex, polyoctahedron

Questions about 24-cells

What is 24-cells the plural of?
24-cells is the plural of 24-cell.

Words near 24-cells in the dictionary

  1. 24 Sussex
  2. 24 Sussex Drive
  3. 24 Sussex Street
  4. 24-7
  5. 24-cell
  6. 24-cells
  7. 24-gon
  8. 24-gons
  9. 24-hour clock
  10. 24-hour clocks
  11. 24-hour day

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