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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A treelike data structure each of whose nodes has up to sixteen children. It can be used to partition a four-dimensional space by recursively subdividing it.

Etymology

From hex- + tree.

Related phrases

binary treedata structurefour dimensional

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