Etymology

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Today it means: An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its cells, its faces, its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each cell, each face, each edge and each vertex. Full definition →

Ancient Greek στερεός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromστερεός“sold, firm, hard”
  2. English todaysterication

Coined by mathematician Norman Johnson from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “sold, firm, hard”) + -ation.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekστερεός all →

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