Rupert
US/ˈɹupɚt/
Rupert proper noun: a male given name from the Germanic languages.
Proper noun
Rupert
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.2010, Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 99
- 'What about Rupert?' his mother says brightly. 'I've always loved the name Rupert and it's an old family name on my side.'
'Sounds like...a whatdyoucallit?' Ted's father says, folding up the newspaper and tossing it to the floor.
'What?'
'A...' Ted's father puts his hand to his brow '...you...2010, Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 91
- A city, the county seat of Minidoka County, Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio.
- A town in Vermont.
- A town in West Virginia.
Noun
Rupert (plural Ruperts)
- A junior army officer.
Adjective
Rupert (not comparable)
- Having or relating to the property of being able to pass through a copy of itself.
- A concise way to express that a polyhedron is Rupert is to find two orientations Q and Q of that polyhedron so that π(Q) fits inside π(Q) […] impact the shape of π(Q) are those lying on P, so if P is locally Rupert, Q should be as well. […]2022, E. Scott, Two Sufficient Conditions for a Polyhedron to be (Locally) Rupert
- The authors verify that cubes and all rectangular boxes have Rupert passages in any direction not parallel to their faces. […] Huber [...et al.] succeed in showing that also the n-dimensional cube is Rupert.2024 July 14, Vitor Balestro, Horst Martini, Ralph Teixeira, Convexity from the Geometric Point of View, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 175
Forms of Rupert
| plural | Ruperts |
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Origin of Rupert
A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert. The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size.
Words formed from Rupert
Phrases with Rupert
Questions about Rupert
- What does Rupert mean?
- Rupert means a male given name from the Germanic languages.
- What part of speech is Rupert?
- Rupert can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce Rupert?
- Rupert is pronounced /ˈɹupɚt/ (US).
Words near Rupert in the dictionary
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