16-cell

noun
/sɪksˈtiːnˌsɛl/

Etymology

From 16 + cell.

  1. derived from *ḱel-
  2. derived from *ḱelneh₂
  3. derived from *kelnā
  4. derived from cele
  5. derived from cel
  6. derived from cella
  7. inherited from cell
  8. inherited from celle
  9. compounded as 16-cell — “16 + cell

Definitions

  1. A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to an octahedron, whose sixteen bounding facets…

    A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to an octahedron, whose sixteen bounding facets are tetrahedra.

    • The remaining 8, as before, are the vertices of the complementary 16-cell (see Figure 9). In Figure 7, these 8 points have been blackened, but not joined, because the 16-cell has longer edges; diameters of octahedral facets of the 24-cell.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for 16-cell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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