hypersurface

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)

Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.

English hyper-

Middle French surfacebor.

English surface

English hypersurface

From hyper- + surface.

Noun

hypersurface (plural hypersurfaces)

1. (mathematics) A n-dimensional surface in a space (often a Euclidean space) of dimension n+1

Translations

codimension-one space

• Kazakh: гипербет (giyperbet)
• Polish: hiperpowierzchnia f
• Swedish: hyperyta c

See also

• hyperplane
• hypersurface on Wikipedia.Wikipedia