vertex figure

Noun

 * 1)  The figure exposed when a corner of a polyhedron or polytope is sliced off.
 * 2) * 1970,, Twisted Honeycombs, , Regional Conference Series in Mathematics: Number 4, , page 14,
 * Thus the vertex figure of a polygon is the line-segment whose end-points are the vertex figures of the two edges at one vertex, the vertex figure of a polyhedron or tessellation {p, q} is the polygon {q} whose edges are the vertex figures of the q faces at one vertex, and the analogous "vertex figure" of the honeycomb of cubes (§1) is the polyhedron whose faces are the vertex figures of the eight cubic cells that come together at one vertex.