5-cell

//ˈfaɪvˌsɛl//

Synonyms for "5-cell" (5 found)

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Translations

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Esperanto

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  • kvinĉelo noun (four-dimensional polytope analogous to a tetrahedron)

Italian

3 entries
  • 5-cella noun (four-dimensional polytope analogous to a tetrahedron)
  • ipertetraedro noun (four-dimensional polytope analogous to a tetrahedron)
  • pentacoro noun (four-dimensional polytope analogous to a tetrahedron)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 正五胞体 noun (four-dimensional polytope analogous to a tetrahedron)

Korean

1 entries
  • 정오포체 noun (four-dimensional polytope analogous to a tetrahedron)

Polish

1 entries
  • pięciościan czterowymiarowy noun (four-dimensional polytope analogous to a tetrahedron)

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In every vertex of the 5-cell, 8-cell and 120-cell there are 4 concurring edges; in every vertex of the 24-cell, 8 edges.

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1988, Unnamed translator, L. A. Sidorov, Confuguration, article in Michiel Hazewinkel (editor) Encyclopaedia of Mathematics: An updated and annotated translation of the Soviet ‘Mathematical Encyclopaedia’, Volume 2: C, page 309, For example, a 5-cell is bounded by five three-dimensional tetrahedra, an 8-cell by eight cubes, etc., the 5-cell and the 24-cell being duals of each other (the points correspond to spaces and lines to planes).

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If we call a regular polytope with m facets an m-cell, then in E⁴ we have the 5-cell with tetrahedral facets (the simplex), the 8-cell with cubic facets (the hypercube), the 16-cell with tetrahedral facets (the regular cross-polytope), the 24-cell with octahedral facets, the 120-cell with dodecahedral facets, and the 600-cell with tetrahedral facets.

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Later in the same document, President Hall listed all of the university's four-dimensional models: four Brill models—the 5-cell, 8-cell, 16-cell, and 24-cell—along with seven spun glass models by T. P. Hall that "illustrated rotations."

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