Meaning of monohedron | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A solid figure with a single continuous surface (face) and no edges, such as a torus or spheroid.
2. A type of hull that has a constant deadrise.
3. A pedion.

Equivalents

Examples

“This is a reflection of the fact that the monohedron collapses asymptotically to a line (along the w₁-axis) when T -> Tₜ (t -> 0) (Widom, 1975c).”

“The beginner may be confused by old hands learnedly discussing the rival merits of monohedron and warped bottoms, so this matter⟳ will be cleared up first.”

“Then, in the above example, to RPS lying on the equator there corresponds a prism, to those lying outside the equator, a pyramid, and to the polar point⟳, a monohedron.”

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