8-cell

noun
/ˈeɪtˌsɛl/

Etymology

From 8 + 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 8-cell — “8 + cell

Definitions

  1. A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a cube, whose eight bounding facets are cubes

    A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a cube, whose eight bounding facets are cubes; a tesseract.

    • Similarly in dimension eight there is the quaternionic projective plane which we can think of as a 4-sphere with an 8-cell attached, and in dimension sixteen there is a Cayley projective plane which has similar properties.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for 8-cell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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