"polytope" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: polytopes [plural]
Etymology: From German Polytop, equivalent to poly- (“many”) + -tope (“surface”). Coined by Hoppe in 1882 and introduced to English by Alicia Boole Stott. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|de|Polytop}} German Polytop, {{m|en|poly-||many}} poly- (“many”), {{m|en|-tope||surface}} -tope (“surface”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} polytope (plural polytopes)
  1. (geometry) A finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes (a geometric shape with flat sides, existing in any number of dimensions); the geometrical entity represented by the general term of the infinite sequence "point, line, polygon, polyhedron, ...". Wikipedia link: polytope Categories (topical): Geometry, Higher-dimensional geometry, Shapes Hyponyms (geometrical figure): polygon (2d figure), polyhedron (3d figure), polychoron (4d figure), hypercube (english: generalised cube), simplex (english: generalised tetrahedron), tesseract (4d cube) Derived forms: 4-polytope, cross-polytope Related terms: polytopic Translations (geometric shape): polítop [masculine] (Catalan), 多胞形 (duōbāoxíng) (Chinese Mandarin), hiperpluredro (Esperanto), polytope [masculine] (French), Polytop [masculine] (German), politóp (Hungarian), politopo [masculine] (Italian), ポリトープ (poritōpu) (Japanese), 超多面体 (chōtamentai) (alt: ちょうためんたい) (Japanese), 다포체 (dapoche) (alt: 多胞體) (Korean), چندبر (Persian), wielotop [masculine] (Polish), wielokomórka [feminine] (Polish), politopo [masculine] (Portuguese), полиэ́др (poliédr) [masculine] (Russian), полито́п (politóp) [masculine] (Russian), politopo [masculine] (Spanish), polytop [common-gender] (Swedish)

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