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hexacosichoron

/hɛksəɪkoʊsɪˈkoʊɹɔn/

hexacosichoron noun: a four-dimensional object analogous to an icosahedron, constructed out of six hundred tetrahedra, arranged 20 to a vertex.

Noun

hexacosichoron (plural hexacosichorons or hexacosichora)

  1. A four-dimensional object analogous to an icosahedron, constructed out of six hundred tetrahedra, arranged 20 to a vertex.
    • Fig. 5 shows a polar representation of 5880 rotations generated by subsampling the hexacosichoron.2007, J.R. Plaisier, L. Jiang, J.P. Abrahams, Cyclops: New modular software suite for cryo-EM
    • The present paper deals with a collection of 60 rays in a 4-dimensional real vector space represented by the vertices of a hexacosichoron (i.e. a 4-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron).
      Comment: the reviewer uses the word, the reviewed paper uses 600-cell only.2011. Artur E. Ruuge, review MR2594002 (2011d:81017) of Waegell, Mordecai and Aravind, P. K., "Critical noncolorings of the 600-cell proving the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem.", Journal of Physics A 43...
    Synonyms:
    600-cell

Synonyms of hexacosichoron

Forms of hexacosichoron

pluralhexacosichorons
pluralhexacosichora

Origin of hexacosichoron

From hexacosi- (“six hundred”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἑξακόσιοι (hexakósioi, “six hundred”) and χῶρος (khôros, “room”).

Questions about hexacosichoron

What does hexacosichoron mean?
Hexacosichoron means a four-dimensional object analogous to an icosahedron, constructed out of six hundred tetrahedra, arranged 20 to a vertex.
What part of speech is hexacosichoron?
Hexacosichoron is a noun.
How do you pronounce hexacosichoron?
Hexacosichoron is pronounced /hɛksəɪkoʊsɪˈkoʊɹɔn/.
What is the plural of hexacosichoron?
The plural of hexacosichoron is hexacosichorons.

Words near hexacosichoron in the dictionary

  1. hexacosenoate
  2. hexacosenoates
  3. hexacosenoic acid
  4. hexacosenoic acids
  5. hexacosichora
  6. hexacosichoron
  7. hexacosichorons
  8. hexact
  9. hexactin
  10. hexactinal
  11. hexactine

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