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hexadecachora

hexadecachora is the plural of hexadecachoron.

Meaning of hexadecachoron

Noun

hexadecachoron (plural hexadecachorons or hexadecachora)

  1. A four-dimensional object analogous to an octahedron, constructed out of sixteen tetrahedra.
    • In a world with four spatial dimensions, for example, we can construct only six regular solids, viz pentatope, tesseract, hexadecachoron, icositetrachoron, hecatonicosachoron and hexacosichoron.2005, V H Satheesh Kumar, P K Suresh, Are We Living in a Higher Dimensional Universe?, page 3
    Synonyms:
    16-cell

Questions about hexadecachora

What is hexadecachora the plural of?
Hexadecachora is the plural of hexadecachoron.

Words near hexadecachora in the dictionary

  1. hexadactyly
  2. hexade
  3. hexadec-
  4. hexadeca-
  5. hexadecacarbonylhexarhodium
  6. hexadecachora
  7. hexadecachoron
  8. hexadecachorons
  9. hexadecadienal
  10. hexadecadienals
  11. hexadecadienol

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