permutohedron

English

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Etymology

From permute +‎ -o- +‎ -hedron.

Noun

permutohedron (plural permutohedra)

  1. (mathematics) A polytope with n-1 dimensions that is embedded in an n-dimensional space, its vertices formed by permuting the coordinates of the vector (1, 2, 3, ..., n).
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