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hexadecachoron

hexadecachoron noun: a four-dimensional object analogous to an octahedron, constructed out of sixteen tetrahedra.

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
    • We have chosen the surfaces of a pentatope (5-cell) as well as a hexadecachoron (16-cell), which are simple standard triangulations of a 3-sphere, shown in figure (7), as our underlying lattices.2009, P. Khavari, C. C. Dyer, Aspects of Causality in Parallelisable Implicit Evolution Scheme, page 7
    Synonyms:
    16-cell

Synonyms of hexadecachoron

Forms of hexadecachoron

pluralhexadecachorons
pluralhexadecachora

Origin of hexadecachoron

From hexadeca- (“sixteen”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx, “six”), δέκα (déka, “ten”) and χῶρος (khôros, “room”).

Questions about hexadecachoron

What does hexadecachoron mean?
Hexadecachoron means a four-dimensional object analogous to an octahedron, constructed out of sixteen tetrahedra.
What part of speech is hexadecachoron?
Hexadecachoron is a noun.
What is the plural of hexadecachoron?
The plural of hexadecachoron is hexadecachorons.

Words near hexadecachoron in the dictionary

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

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