RECTIFICATION

Rectification

In Euclidean geometry, rectification is the process of truncating a polytope by marking the midpoints of all its edges, and cutting off its vertices at those points. The resulting polytope will be bounded by the vertex figures and the rectified facets of the original polytope.

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rectification

Noun

  1. The action or process of rectifying.


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