parallelotope

[数]超平行体

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词形变化

parallelotopes 复数 parallelotopes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A generalization of parallelogram and parallelepiped into a figure of arbitrary dimensionality.

    数学

    1983 [North Holland/Elsevier], Robert S. Borden, A Course in Advanced Calculus, 1998, Dover, page 83, Suppose now that P is a k-dimensional parallelotope, 1<k<n, in Eⁿ.

    1997, Daniel A. Klain, Gian-Carlo Rota, Introduction to Geometric Probability, Cambridge University Press, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, page 30, We develop next a theory of invariant valuations for the lattice of finite unions of orthogonal parallelotopes, having edgers parallel to a fixed frame. […] This follows from the basic fact that the intersection of two parallelotopes is a parallelotope.

词源

Blend of parallelogram + polytope. Popularized by Canadian geometer H.S.M. Coxeter.

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