apeirohedron
/əˌpiːɹɵˈhiːdɹən/
apeirohedron noun: a polyhedron with an infinite number of faces.
Noun
apeirohedron (plural apeirohedrons or apeirohedra)
- A polyhedron with an infinite number of faces.
- Coordinate term: zerohedron
- There are exactly 12 regular apeirohedra that in some sense are reducible and have components that are regular figures of dimensions 1 and 2. These apeirohedra are blends of a planar regular apeirohedron, and a line segment { } or linear apeirogon {∞}. This explains why there are 12 = 6·2 blended...2014, Daniel Pellicer with Egon Schulte, “Polygonal Complexes and Graphs for Crystallographic Groups”, in Robert Connelly, Asia Ivić Weiss, Walter Whiteley, editors, Rigidity and Symmetry, New York...
Forms of apeirohedron
| plural | apeirohedrons |
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| plural | apeirohedra |
Origin of apeirohedron
From apeiro- + -hedron.
Questions about apeirohedron
- What does apeirohedron mean?
- Apeirohedron means a polyhedron with an infinite number of faces.
- What part of speech is apeirohedron?
- Apeirohedron is a noun.
- How do you pronounce apeirohedron?
- Apeirohedron is pronounced /əˌpiːɹɵˈhiːdɹən/.
- What is the plural of apeirohedron?
- The plural of apeirohedron is apeirohedrons.
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