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4-polytope

4-polytope noun: a four-dimensional polytope.

4-polytope: a four-dimensional polytope
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Noun

4-polytope (plural 4-polytopes)

  1. A four-dimensional polytope.
    • Perhaps the most obvious next step is to investigate 4-polytopes with respect to symmetry equivalence.1984, London Mathematical Society lecture note series, numbers 88-90, page 101
    • The situation for 4-polytopes is fundamentally different from that for 3-dimensional polytopes. One reason is that there is no similar reduction of 4-polytope theory to a combinatorial (graph) problem.2004, Martin Henk, Jürgen Richter-Gebert, Günter M. Ziegler, “16: Basic properties of convex polytopes”, in Joseph O'Rourke, Jacob E. Goodman, editors, Handbook of Discrete and Computational...

Synonyms of 4-polytope

Forms of 4-polytope

plural4-polytopes

Origin of 4-polytope

From 4-dimensional + polytope.

Questions about 4-polytope

What does 4-polytope mean?
4-polytope means a four-dimensional polytope.
What part of speech is 4-polytope?
4-polytope is a noun.
What is the plural of 4-polytope?
The plural of 4-polytope is 4-polytopes.

Words near 4-polytope in the dictionary

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  2. 4-methylumbelliferylguanidinobenzoate
  3. 4-omino
  4. 4-ominos
  5. 4-on-the-floor
  6. 4-polytope
  7. 4-polytopes
  8. 4-to-1 rule
  9. 4-wheeler
  10. 4-wheelers
  11. 4/20

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