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Rotational symmetry of order n, also called n-fold rotational symmetry, or discrete rotational symmetry of the n th order, with respect to a particular point (in 2D) or axis (in 3D) means that rotation by an angle of (180°, 120°, 90°, 72°, 60°, 51 3 ⁄ 7 °, etc.) does not change the object. A "1-fold" symmetry is no symmetry (all ...
The infinite series of axial or prismatic groups have an index n, which can be any integer; in each series, the nth symmetry group contains n-fold rotational symmetry about an axis, i.e. symmetry with respect to a rotation by an angle 360°/n. n=1 covers the cases of no rotational symmetry at all.
A similar space for an isosceles triangle is the cyclic group of order two, C 2. A similar space for an equilateral triangle is D 3, the dihedral group of order 6. The isometry group of a two-dimensional sphere is the orthogonal group O(3). [3] The isometry group of the n-dimensional Euclidean space is the Euclidean group E(n). [4]
The triangles with reflection symmetry are isosceles, the quadrilaterals with this symmetry are kites and isosceles trapezoids. [11] For each line or plane of reflection, the symmetry group is isomorphic with C s (see point groups in three dimensions for more), one of the three types of order two (involutions), hence algebraically isomorphic to ...
In the 5 cases of rotational symmetry of order 3 or 6, the unit cell consists of two equilateral triangles (hexagonal lattice, itself p6m). They form a rhombus with angles 60° and 120°. In the 3 cases of rotational symmetry of order 4, the cell is a square (square lattice, itself p4m).
The symmetry group of an n-sided regular polygon is the dihedral group D n (of order 2n): D 2, D 3, D 4, ... It consists of the rotations in C n, together with reflection symmetry in n axes that pass through the center.
A high-index reflective subgroup is the prismatic octahedral symmetry, [4,3,2] (), order 96, subgroup index 4, (Du Val #44 (O/C 2;O/C 2) *, Conway ± 1 / 24 [O×O].2). The truncated cubic prism has this symmetry with Coxeter diagram and the cubic prism is a lower symmetry construction of the tesseract, as .
Isometries of order n include, but are not restricted to, n-fold rotations. The theorem also excludes S 8, S 12, D 4d, and D 6d (see point groups in three dimensions), even though they have 4- and 6-fold rotational symmetry only. Rotational symmetry of any order about an axis is compatible with translational symmetry along that axis.