polytope

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 See also 2 French 2.1 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From poly- (“‘many’”) + -tope (“‘surface’”)

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polytope (plural polytopes)

1. (geometry) A finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes; the geometrical entity represented by the general term of the infinite sequence "point, line, polygon, polyhedron, ...".

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[edit] See also

• hypercube
• tesseract

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[edit] Noun

polytope m. (plural polytopes)

1. polytope