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polytopes

polytopes is the plural of polytope.

Meaning of polytope

Noun

polytope (plural polytopes)

  1. A geometric shape (of any number of dimensions) which is fully enclosed and has flat sides, making it a member of the generalized class of shapes which includes the two-dimensional polygon and three-dimensional polyhedron; (formally) a finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes.
    • As is well known, the theory of linear inequalities is closely related to the study of convex polytopes.1964, Victor Klee, On the Number of Vertices of a Convex Polytope: Canadian Journal of Mathematics, volume XVI, number 4, page 701

Phrases with polytopes

Questions about polytopes

What is polytopes the plural of?
Polytopes is the plural of polytope.

Words near polytopes in the dictionary

  1. polytonicity
  2. polytons
  3. polytony
  4. polytopal
  5. polytope
  6. polytopes
  7. polytopian
  8. polytopians
  9. polytopic
  10. polytopical
  11. polytopism

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