orthoplex

English

A 16-cell, or 4-dimensional orthoplex (Schlegel diagram)

Etymology

ortho- + -plex

Noun

orthoplex (plural orthoplexes)

  1. (geometry) A convex polytope analogous to an octahedron (3 dimensions) or 16-cell (4 dimensions).
    • 1990, Mathematica Journal, Volumes 1-2, page 84,
      We made use of another way of considering the 120 cells, starting with the eight at the vertices of an orthoplex, that is, in the cells of a hypercube.
    • 1991, J. H. Conway, N. J. A. Sloane, The Cell Structures of Certain Lattices, Peter Hilton, Friedrich Hirzebruch, Reinhold Remmert (editors), Miscellanea Mathematica, page 90,
      It is remarkable that the four-dimensional orthoplex is the same polytope as the four-dimensional hemicube.
    • 2008, John H. Conway; Heidi Burgiel; Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things, page 412:
      The combinatorics of this case apply to all members of the Gosset series; in every case, their cells are simplexes and orthoplexes, the latter appearing with only half symmetry.

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Derived terms

  • 4-orthoplex

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