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Noun Concept

Categories: Polytopes, Truncated tilings

rectification birectification Birectifying Quadirectification Quintirectification

Determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve WordNet 3.0

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Determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In Euclidean geometry, rectification, also known as critical truncation or complete-truncation, is the process of truncating a polytope by marking the midpoints of all its edges, and cutting off its vertices at those points. Wikipedia

Truncating a polytope by marking the midpoints of all its edges, and cutting off its vertices at those points Wikipedia Disambiguation

Process of truncating a polytope by marking the midpoints of all its edges, and cutting off its vertices at those points Wikidata

The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3. Wiktionary

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expanded cuboctahedron

expanded icosidodecahedron

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cuboctahedron

regular octahedron