polychoron

English

Etymology

poly- (“many”) +‎ -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many, much”) and χώρος (khṓros, “room”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔlɪˈkoʊɹɔn/

Noun

polychoron (plural polychorons or polychora)

1. (mathematics) A four-dimensional polytope

Hyponyms

• hypercube, tesseract
• pentachoron

Translations

four-dimensional polotype

• Esperanto: plurĉelo
• French: polychore (fr) m
• German: Polichoron n
• Italian: policoro m
• Japanese: 多胞体 (たほうたい, tahōtai)
• Macedonian: многуќелијник m (mnoguḱelijnik), полихорон f (polihoron)
• Russian: полихоро́н m (polixorón)