runcination

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its faces, its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each face, each edge and each vertex.

Word forms

runcination runcinations

Etymology

From Latin runcina + -ation.

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