"sterication" meaning in English

See sterication in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: sterications [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} sterication (countable and uncountable, plural sterications)
  1. (geometry) An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its cells, its faces, its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each cell, each face, each edge and each vertex. Tags: countable, uncountable Hypernyms: rectification Related terms: steric, stericate, stericated
    Sense id: en-sterication-en-noun-JwwVKYgS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Geometry Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences

Inflected forms

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