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8-cells

8-cells is the plural of 8-cell.

Meaning of 8-cell

Noun

8-cell (plural 8-cells)

  1. A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a cube, whose eight bounding facets are cubes; a tesseract.
    • According to this table the tetrahedron corresponds to the 5-cell, the cube to the 8-cell ("hypercube"), the octahedron to the 16-cell, the dodecahedron to the 120-cell and the icosahedron to the 600-cell. The 24-cell is an additional body in four-dimensional space which is dual to itself.1988, Klaus Mainzer, Symmetries of Nature: A Handbook for Philosophy of Nature and Science, published 1996, page 159
    Synonyms:
    4-cube, hypercube, cubic prism, octachoron, octahedroid, tesseract

Questions about 8-cells

What is 8-cells the plural of?
8-cells is the plural of 8-cell.

Words near 8-cells in the dictionary

  1. 8 stop
  2. 8-1-1
  3. 8-bit
  4. 8-bits
  5. 8-cell
  6. 8-cells
  7. 8-foot
  8. 8-gon
  9. 8-gons
  10. 8-omino
  11. 8-ominos

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