Noun: hexadecachoron
| Singular | hexadecachoron |
| Plural | hexadecachorons; hexadecachora |
Sample Sentences
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In a world with four spatial dimensions, for example, we can construct only six regular solids, viz pentatope, tesseract, hexadecachoron, icositetrachoron, hecatonicosachoron and hexacosichoron. [2005, V H Satheesh Kumar, P K Suresh, Are We Living in a Higher Dimensional Universe?, page 3:]
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We have chosen the surfaces of a pentatope (5-cell) as well as a hexadecachoron (16-cell), which are simple standard triangulations of a 3-sphere, shown in figure (7), as our underlying lattices. [2009, P. Khavari, C. C. Dyer, Aspects of Causality in Parallelisable Implicit Evolution Scheme, page 7:]
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In four dimensions, surprisingly, there are three space-filling convex regular polychora: the tesseract (the hypercube in ℝ⁴), the hexadecachoron, and the icositetrachoron. [2011, Jin Akiyama, Ikuro Sato, The element number of the convex regular polytopes, page 271:]
Nouns inflected like hexadecachoron
xyston,
upsilon,
onomasticon,
apastron,
analogion,
hexadecachoron,
parallelohedron,
bioctahedron,
omophorion,
Omicron,
phaneron,
epiplastron,
acroterion,
hypoplastron,
mixolimnion,
diachylon,
proamnion,
chrismon,
extrachorion,
trihemitetartemorion, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From hexadeca- (“sixteen”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx, “six”), δέκα (déka, “ten”) and χῶρος (khôros, “room”).