HYPERPLANE

Hyperplane

In geometry, as a plane has one less dimension than space, a hyperplane is a subspace of one dimension less than its ambient space

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hyperplane

Noun

  1. An n-dimensional generalization of a plane; an affine subspace of dimension n-1 that splits an n-dimensional space. (In a one-dimensional space, it is a point; in two-dimensional space it is a line; in three-dimensional space, it is an ordinary plane.)


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