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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A convex polytope analogous to an octahedron (3 dimensions) or 16-cell (4 dimensions).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined in 1991 by John Horton Conway and Neil Sloane. Blend of orthant + complex, since it has one facet for each orthant.
