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Abstract polytope
In mathematics, an abstract polytope is a combinatorial structure with properties similar to those shared by a more classical polytope. Abstract polytopes include the polygons, the platonic solids and other polyhedra, tessellations of the plane and higher-dimensional spaces, and of other manifolds such as the torus or projective plane, and many other objects (such as the 11-cell and the 57-cell) that don't fit well into any "normal" space.
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