acoptic

English
The cube is an acoptic polyhedron.

Etymology

Introduced by the mathematician Branko Grünbaum to clarify terminology in the geometry of polygons and polyhedra. From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ κόπτω (kóptō, “to cut”).

Adjective

acoptic (not comparable)

  1. (geometry, uncommon) Not self-intersecting.
    • 1999, Branko Grünbaum, "Acoptic polyhedra", Advances in discrete and computational geometry (South Hadley, MA, 1996) (PDF), Contemp. Math., 223, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, pp. 163–199, doi:10.1090/conm/223/03137, MR 1661382.

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