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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