Meanings
plural hecatonicosachorons · plural hecatonicosachora
- geometryA four-dimensional object analogous to a dodecahedron, constructed out of one hundred and twenty dodecahedra, arranged 4 to a vertex.
The pentachoron, hypercube, orthoplex, hecatonicosachoron, and hexacosichoron are analogues of the ordinary Platonic solids.
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The pentachoron, the hecatonicosachoron, and the hexacosichoron all have dichoral angles which are not divisors of 2π, and consequently, they are not space-filling.
2011, Jin Akiyama, Ikuro Sato, The element number of the convex regular polytopes, page 271The hecatonicosachoron (dodecaplex or 120-cell) and the hexacosichoron (tet- raplex or 600-cell) are also unique polychora, which have no analogs in higher dimensions.
2012, Andrzej Katunin, Fractals based on regular convex polytopes, page 57Synonyms: 120-cell, dodecacontachoron
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA four-dimensional object analogous to a dodecahedron, constructed out of one hundred and twenty dodecahedra, arranged 4 to a vertex.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἑκατόν“one hundred”
- Englishhecatonicosachoron
From hecaton- (“one hundred”) + icosa- (“twenty”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἑκατόν (hekatón, “one hundred”) εἴκοσι (eíkosi, “twenty”) and χῶρος (khôros, “room”).
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Esperanto centdudekĉelo
- centdudekĉelofour-dimensional object
Finnish 120-solu
- 120-solufour-dimensional object
Japanese 正百二十胞体
- 正百二十胞体 (seihyakunijūhōtai)four-dimensional object
Polish stodwudziestościan czterowymiarowy
- stodwudziestościan czterowymiarowyfour-dimensional object
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