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hypersurface

noun

hypersurface is a noun meaning “A n-dimensional surface in a space (often a Euclidean space) of dimension n+1” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-S-U-R-F-A-C-E, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypersurface is hypersurfaces.

What does hypersurface mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A n-dimensional surface in a space (often a Euclidean space) of dimension n+1

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hypersurface

  • hypersurfaces plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is hypersurface?

Hypersurface appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does hypersurface come from?

From hyper- + surface.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).