cantellation

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Noun

cantellation (countable and uncountable, plural cantellations)

  1. (geometry) An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each edge and each vertex.
    Hypernym: rectification
    Hyponyms: bicantellation, runcicantellation
    Coordinate terms: truncation, runcination, sterication

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