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Superdimensional glossary

Published 28 January MMXXV

A glossary of my preferences for superdimensional (≥4D) vocabulary. There aren't really too many stardards set in place, so you can kind of make up whatever you want for now...

This was partly inspired by Hi.gher.space's Multi-dimensional glossary.

An older revision of this page can be found here.

Key:
green terms are 4D;
yellow underlined terms are 5D;
orange double underlined terms are 6D.

Glossary

(dia)hexaxonal: moving in six axes at once.

(dia)pentaxonal: moving in five axes at once.

(dia)tetraxonal: moving in four axes at once.

(dia)triaxonal: moving in three axes at once, "triagonal".

Clifford ditorus: the Cartesian product of three circles.

Clifford spheritorisphere: the Cartesian product of two spheres.

Clifford torus: the Cartesian product of two circles.

anst: (hypergeography) cardinal direction of positive colongitude, opposite to dyst

anstward: (hypergeography) towards anst

artitude: (hypergeography) 90° latitude, symbol χ

breadth: horizontal measure, perpendicular to length and width

broad: great adjective of breadth

coil: rotation in the front-surn plane.

colongitude: (hypergeography) the longitude running along the polar ring, perpendicular to longitude. Symbol λ

cougar: the ((IIII)(II)) toratope.

demihexeract: the 6D Archimedean solid bound by 12 demipenteracts and 32 hexatera, the 6-demicube.

demipenteract: the 5D Archimedean solid bound by 10 hexadecachora and 16 pentachora, the 5-demicube.

dorn: horizontal personal direction, perpendicular to left, right, on and gain and opposite to surn.

dornward: towards dorn.

dyst: (hypergeography) cardinal direction of negative colongitude, opposite to anst.

dystward: (hypergeography) towards dyst.

gain: horizontal personal direction, perpendicular to left and right and opposite to on.

gainward: towards gain.

glome: 3-sphere, the set of all points with a fixed radius from some center in R4 space.

gnarl: rotation in the right-surn plane.

gongyl: 4-ball, the set of all points at or below a fixed radius from some center in R4 space. That is, a filled version of the glome.

hecatonicosachoron: the 4D Platonic solid bound by 120 dodecahedra, the 120-cell.

hemiphennion: a phennion sliced in half by a 4D plane.

heptapeton: the 6D Platonic solid bound by 7 hexatera, the 6-simplex.

hexacosichoron: the 4D Platonic solid bound by 600 tetrahedra, the 600-cell.

hexadecachoron: the 4D Platonic solid bound by 16 tetrahedra, the 16-cell.

hexateron: the 5D Platonic solid bound by 6 pentachora, the 5-simplex.

hexecontatetrapeton: the 6D Platonic solid bound by 64 hexatera, the 6-orthoplex.

hexeract: the 6D Platonic solid bound by 12 penteracts, the 6-cube.

icosiheptahebdomecontadipeton: the 6D Archimedean solid bound by 27 triacontaditera and 72 hexatera, the 221 polytope.

icositetrachoron: the 4D Platonic solid bound by 24 octahedra, the 24-cell.

jaguar: the ((II)(III)) toratope.

kirn: (hypergeography) cardinal direction of positive artitude, opposite to thern.

leopard: the ((II)(II)(II)) toratope.

lion: the ((III)(III)) toratope.

on: horizontal personal direction, perpendicular to left and right and opposite to gain.

onward: towards on.

pentachoron: the 4D Platonic solid bound by 5 tetrahedra, the 5-cell.

pentecontatetrapeton: the 6D Archimedean solid bound by 54 demipenteracts, the 122 polytope.

penteract: the 5D Platonic solid bound by 10 tesseracts, the 5-cube.

phenind: 5-ball, the set of all points at or below a fixed radius from some center in R5 space. That is, a filled version of the phennion.

phennion: 4-sphere, the set of all points with a fixed radius from some center in R5 space.

polar ring: (hypergeography) the ring of rotation farthest from the ecliptic plane.

quartolume: 4D equivalent of volume, dimension L4.

quintolume: 5D equivalent of volume, dimension L5.

reel: rotation in the front-on plane.

rupiglome: (hypergeography) a glome sliced by a Clifford torus, leaving a toroidal half.

semiglome: a glome sliced in half by a 3D plane.

sextolume: 6D equivalent of volume, dimension L6.

solar ring: (hypergeography) the ring of rotation closest to the ecliptic plane.

surn: horizontal personal direction, perpendicular to left, right, on and gain and opposite to dorn.

surnward: towards surn.

tesseract: the 4D Platonic solid bound by 8 cubes, the 4-cube/8-cell.

thern: (hypergeography) cardinal direction of negative artitude, opposite to kirn.

topple: rotation in the up-surn plane.

triacontaditeron: the 5D Platonic solid bound by 32 pentachora, the 5-orthoplex.

tumble: rotation in the up-on plane.

twirl: rotation in the right-on plane.

whirl: rotation in the on-surn plane.