apeirogon
noun/əˈpiːɹɵɡɑn/ · /əˈpeɪ̯ɹɵɡɑn/
Etymology From apeiro- + -gon.
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices;
- Hence the regular polygon ABCD ... can either be a convex n-gon, a star n-gon, a horocylic^([sic – meaning horocyclic]) apeirogon or a hypercyclic apeirogon.1984, Coxeter-Festschrift [Mitteilungen aus dem Mathem[atisches] Seminar Giessen], Giessen: Gießen Mathematischen Institut, Justus Liebig-Universität Gießen, page 247:
- In geometry, an apeirogon is a limiting case of a regular polygon. The number of sides in an apeirogon is becoming infinite, so the apeirogon as a whole approaches a circle. A magnified view of a small piece of the apeirogon looks like a straight line.1994, Steven Schwartzman, The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English, Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America, →ISBN, page 27:
2 more examples
- [A]n apeirogon (infinite regular polygon) is a linear one {∞}, a planar (skew) one (zigzag apeirogon), which is the blend {∞} # { } with a segment, or helix, which is a blend of {∞} with a bounded regular polygon.2002, Peter McMullen with Egon Schulte, Abstract Regular Polytopes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 217:
- There are exactly 12 regular apeirohedra that in some sense are reducible and have components that are regular figures of dimensions 1 and 2. These apeirohedra are blends of a planar regular apeirohedron, and a line segment { } or linear apeirogon {∞}. This explains why there are 12 = 6·2 blended (or non-pure) apeirohedra. For example, the blend of the standard square tessellation {4,4} and the infinite apeirogon {∞}, denoted {4,4}#{∞}, is an apeirohedron whose faces are helical apeirogons (over squares), rising above the squares of {4,4}, such that 4 meet at each vertex; the orthogonal projections of {4,4}#{∞} onto their component subspaces recover the original components, the square tessellation and the linear apeirogon.2014, Daniel Pellicer with Egon Schulte, “Polygonal Complexes and Graphs for Crystallographic Groups”, in Robert Connelly, Asia Ivić Weiss, Walter Whiteley, editors, Rigidity and Symmetry, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 331:
› A type of generalised polygon with a…
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences In the regular case the limit case of an n-sided regular polygon as n increases to infinity and the edge length is fixed; typically imagined as a straight line partitioned into equal segments by an infinite number of equally-spaced points.
- Derived terms
- apeirogonal
- Related terms
- apeirohedron, infinigon, pseudogon
- Hyponyms
- zerogon