sterication

sterication

English

Etymology

Coined by mathematician Norman Johnson from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “sold, firm, hard”) + -ation.

Noun

sterication (countable and uncountable, plural sterications)

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