associahedron

English

Etymology

(associativity rule), associate +‎ -hedron

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Noun

associahedron (plural associahedra)

  1. (mathematics) A convex polytope in which each vertex corresponds to a way of correctly inserting opening and closing parentheses in a word of n letters and the edges correspond to a single application of the associativity rule.
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