8-cell

//ˈeɪtˌsɛl//

Synonyms for "8-cell" (6 found)

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Esperanto

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  • okĉelo noun (four-dimensional polytope)

Italian

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  • ipercubo quadridimensionale noun (four-dimensional polytope)
  • ipertetraedro noun (four-dimensional polytope)
  • tesseratto noun (four-dimensional polytope)

Japanese

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  • 正八胞体 noun (four-dimensional polytope)

Korean

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  • 정팔포체 noun (four-dimensional polytope)

Polish

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  • tesserakt noun (four-dimensional polytope)

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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.

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Similarly in dimension eight there is the quaternionic projective plane which we can think of as a 4-sphere with an 8-cell attached, and in dimension sixteen there is a Cayley projective plane which has similar properties.

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Of these nine, five are finite structures in Euclidean space and include the simplex, {3,3,3} (or 5-cell), the four-dimensional cube {4,3,3} (or 8-cell) and its dual {3,3,4} (or 16-cell), and the 120-cell {5,3,3} and its dual {3,3,5} (or 600-cell).

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