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vertex figures

vertex figures is the plural of vertex figure.

Meaning of vertex figure

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

Questions about vertex figures

What is vertex figures the plural of?
Vertex figures is the plural of vertex figure.

Words near vertex figures in the dictionary

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

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