"acoptic" meaning in English

See acoptic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-acoptic.wav
Etymology: Introduced by the mathematician Branko Grünbaum to clarify terminology in the geometry of polygons and polyhedra. From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|-}} Ancient Greek, {{affix|grc|ἀ-|κόπτω|nocat=1|t1=not|t2=to cut}} ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} acoptic (not comparable)
  1. (geometry, uncommon) Not self-intersecting. Wikipedia link: Branko Grünbaum, cube Tags: not-comparable, uncommon
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "nonacoptic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ἀ-",
        "3": "κόπτω",
        "nocat": "1",
        "t1": "not",
        "t2": "to cut"
      },
      "expansion": "ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Introduced by the mathematician Branko Grünbaum to clarify terminology in the geometry of polygons and polyhedra. From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "acoptic (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Geometry",
          "orig": "en:Geometry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1999, Branko Grünbaum, \"Acoptic polyhedra\", Advances in discrete and computational geometry (South Hadley, MA, 1996) (PDF), Contemp. Math., 223, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, pp. 163–199, doi:10.1090/conm/223/03137, MR 1661382."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not self-intersecting."
      ],
      "id": "en-acoptic-en-adj-RIZ9TKQC",
      "links": [
        [
          "geometry",
          "geometry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geometry, uncommon) Not self-intersecting."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geometry",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Branko Grünbaum",
        "cube"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-acoptic.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-acoptic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-acoptic.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-acoptic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-acoptic.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acoptic"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "nonacoptic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ἀ-",
        "3": "κόπτω",
        "nocat": "1",
        "t1": "not",
        "t2": "to cut"
      },
      "expansion": "ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”)",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Introduced by the mathematician Branko Grünbaum to clarify terminology in the geometry of polygons and polyhedra. From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "acoptic (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms with uncommon senses",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Geometry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1999, Branko Grünbaum, \"Acoptic polyhedra\", Advances in discrete and computational geometry (South Hadley, MA, 1996) (PDF), Contemp. Math., 223, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, pp. 163–199, doi:10.1090/conm/223/03137, MR 1661382."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not self-intersecting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geometry",
          "geometry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geometry, uncommon) Not self-intersecting."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "uncommon"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geometry",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Branko Grünbaum",
        "cube"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-acoptic.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-acoptic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-acoptic.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-acoptic.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-acoptic.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acoptic"
}

Download raw JSONL data for acoptic meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.