polytope

Etymology
From, equivalent to +. Coined by Hoppe in 1882 and introduced to English by Alicia Boole Stott.

Noun

 * 1)  A finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes (a geometric shape with flat sides, existing in any number of dimensions); the geometrical entity represented by the general term of the infinite sequence "point, line, polygon, polyhedron, ...".

Hyponyms

 * 2d figure, polyhedron 3d figure, polychoron 4d figure, hypercube generalised cube, simplex generalised tetrahedron, tesseract 4d cube

Related terms

 * polytopic

Translations

 * Catalan: polítop
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Esperanto: hiperpluredro
 * French:
 * German: Polytop
 * Hungarian: politóp
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ポリトープ, 超多面体
 * Korean: 다포체(多胞體)
 * Persian:
 * Polish: wielotop, wielokomórka
 * Portuguese: politopo
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: politopo
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) polytope