Rupert
adj, name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A junior army officer. derogatory, slang
- 1 Having or relating to the property of being able to pass through a copy of itself. not-comparable
"A concise way to express that a polyhedron is Rupert is to find two orientations Q and Q of that polyhedron so that π(Q) fits inside π(Q) […] impact the shape of π(Q) are those lying on P, so if P is locally Rupert, Q should be as well. […]"
- 1 A male given name from the Germanic languages. UK
"A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer."
- 2 A city, the county seat of Minidoka County, Idaho.
- 3 An unincorporated community in Ohio.
- 4 A town in Vermont.
- 5 A town in West Virginia.
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More examples"Rupert chopped down the tree that was in our front yard."
Etymology
A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert. The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size.
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