Rupert

ˈɹupɚt

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#1·8h ago

(derogatory, slang, military) A junior army officer.

Origin: A name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. . The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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(geometry) Having or relating to the property of being able to pass through a copy of itself.

2022, E. Scott, Two Sufficient Conditions for a Polyhedron to be (Locally) Rupert:

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