English Explanatory Dictionary

associahedron

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A convex polytope in which each vertex corresponds to a way of correctly inserting opening and closing parentheses in a word of n letters and the edges correspond to a single application of the associativity rule.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

associahedron associahedra

Etymology

(associativity rule), associate + -hedron

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