runcination
nounEtymology From Latin runcina + -ation.
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Usually 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.
- Derived terms
- runcicantellation, runcicantitruncation, runcitruncation
- Related terms
- runcic, runcinate, runcinated