cross-polytope
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.56 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A polytope that is the convex hull of points, two on each Cartesian axis of a Euclidean space, that are equidistant from the origin; an orthoplex.
Example Sentences
- "The case p = 1, which is actually important to us, is illustrated in Figure 1.14; we are looking at the intersection of a cross-polytope with the probability simplex."
- "2008, Robert Erdahl, Andrei Ordine, Konstantin Rybnikov, Perfect Delaunay Polytopes and Perfect Quadratic Functions on Lattices, Matthias Beck, et al. (editors), Contemporary Mathematics 452: Integer Points in Polyhedra — Geometry, Number Theory, Representation Theory, Algebra, Optimization, Statistics, AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Conference, June 11-15, 2006, page 104, The convex hulls of such crosses often appear as cells in Delaunay tilings – cross polytopes are examples, as are the more spectacular symmetric perfect Delaunay polytopes."
- "The cross polytope βₙ is the regular polytope in n dimensions corresponding to the convex hull of the points formed by permuting the coordinates (±1,0,0,...,0), and has therefore 2n vertices. It is named so because its vertices are located equidistant from the origin, along the Cartesian axes in n-space. The cross polytope in n dimensions is bounded by 2ⁿ (n - 1)-simplices, has 2n vertices and 2ⁿ(n - 1) edges."
- "If one works with the l₁ norm, a ball (the set of all points whose distance lies within a certain radius around a point of interest) has the shape of a cross-polytope. A one-dimensional cross-polytope is a line segment, a two-dimensional cross-polytope is a square, for three dimensions, an octahedron, and so forth."
- "While centrally symmetric d-polytopes with 2d vertices are affinely equivalent to the d-dimensional cross-polytope, a complete classification of the centrally symmetric d-polytopes with 2d + 2 vertices is out of reach."
Inflected Forms
cross-polytopes (plural)
cross polytope (alternative)