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acoptic

acoptic adjective: not self-intersecting.

Adjective

acoptic (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Not self-intersecting.
    • 1999, Branko Grünbaum, "Acoptic polyhedra", Advances in discrete and computational geometry (South Hadley, MA, 1996) (PDF), Contemp. Math., 223, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, pp. 163–199, doi:10.1090/conm/223/03137, MR 1661382.

Antonyms of acoptic

Origin of acoptic

Introduced by the mathematician Branko Grünbaum to clarify terminology in the geometry of polygons and polyhedra. From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).

Questions about acoptic

What does acoptic mean?
Acoptic means not self-intersecting.
What part of speech is acoptic?
Acoptic is an adjective.

Words near acoptic in the dictionary

  1. aconuresis
  2. Acooli
  3. acop
  4. acopia
  5. acopic
  6. acoptic
  7. acoradiene
  8. acoramidis
  9. acoramone
  10. acorane
  11. acoranes

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