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vertex figure

vertex figure noun: the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.

vertex figure: the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off
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Noun

vertex figure (plural vertex figures)

  1. The figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.
    • Thus the vertex figure of a polygon is the line-segment whose end-points are the vertex figures of the two edges at one vertex, the vertex figure of a polyhedron or tessellation {p, q} is the polygon {q} whose edges are the vertex figures of the q faces at one vertex, and the analogous "vertex...1970, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, Twisted Honeycombs, Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, Regional Conference Series in Mathematics: Number 4, American Mathematical Society, page 14
    • Now try to see which of these vertex figures cannot be continued to give a semiregular tiling of the whole plane.1987, A. Gardiner, Mathematical Puzzling, Dover, published 1999, page 137

Forms of vertex figure

pluralvertex figures

Words formed from vertex figure

Questions about vertex figure

What does vertex figure mean?
Vertex figure means the figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.
What part of speech is vertex figure?
Vertex figure is a noun.
What is the plural of vertex figure?
The plural of vertex figure is vertex figures.

Words near vertex figure in the dictionary

  1. vertex
  2. vertex angle
  3. vertex angles
  4. vertex cover
  5. vertex covers
  6. vertex figure
  7. vertex figures
  8. vertex form
  9. vertex forms
  10. vertex separation number
  11. vertexal

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