polytope

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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, ...".

Hyponyms

• polygon
• polyhedron

Translations

geometric shape

Esperanto: hiperpluredro (eo) French: polytope (fr) m. German: Polytop (de) m. Italian: politopo (it) m.

Polish: wielotop m. Portuguese: politopo (pt) m. Spanish: politopo (es) m.

See also

• hypercube
• tesseract

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French

Noun

polytope m. (plural polytopes)

1. polytope