8-cell
//ˈeɪtˌsɛl// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a cube, whose eight bounding facets are cubes; a tesseract.
"According to this table the tetrahedron corresponds to the 5-cell, the cube to the 8-cell ("hypercube"), the octahedron to the 16-cell, the dodecahedron to the 120-cell and the icosahedron to the 600-cell. The 24-cell is an additional body in four-dimensional space which is dual to itself."
Example
More examples"According to this table the tetrahedron corresponds to the 5-cell, the cube to the 8-cell ("hypercube"), the octahedron to the 16-cell, the dodecahedron to the 120-cell and the icosahedron to the 600-cell. The 24-cell is an additional body in four-dimensional space which is dual to itself."
Etymology
From 8 + cell.
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