runcination

English

Noun

runcination (usually uncountable, plural runcinations)

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