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parallelotope

noun

Etymology

Blend of parallelogram + polytope. Popularized by Canadian geometer H.S.M. Coxeter.

  1. derived from τόπος
  2. learned borrowing from Polytop
  3. compounded as parallelotope — “parallelogram + polytope”

Definitions

  1. A generalization of parallelogram and parallelepiped into a figure of arbitrary…

    A generalization of parallelogram and parallelepiped into a figure of arbitrary dimensionality.

    • 1983 [North Holland/Elsevier], Robert S. Borden, A Course in Advanced Calculus, 1998, Dover, page 83, Suppose now that P is a k-dimensional parallelotope, 1<k<n, in Eⁿ.
    • It has 2ᵏ gyrovertices, k#43;1 of which are the gyropoints of S, and k 2#123;k-1#125; gyroedges, in full analogy with parallelotopes.

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