Semiregular
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Semiregular is an adjective meaning Somewhat regular; occasional.
Meaning
Somewhat regular; occasional.
More Meanings
- (topology, of a topological space) Whose regular open sets form a base.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron or tessellation of the plane) Uniform (isogonal and isotoxal) with regular faces of two or more types, such that each vertex is surrounded by the same polygons in the same order.
Example Sentences
In a semiregular tessellation, there is an isometry of the plane carrying any vertex to any other vertex.
Although Lester must still see doctors on a semiregular basis for checkups, his health has returned to normal.
While one of the semiregular polyhedra was mentioned by Plato, their first serious study is attributed to Archimedes.
A space is semiregular iff the regularly open sets (3D) form a base for the topology.[…]Every space X can be embedded in a semiregular space.
Word Forms
- semi-regular
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include polyhedra, semiperiodic, quasiregular, quasiperiodic, periodic, semirare.
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