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Rupert
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English
Etymology
A en de - name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. en Robert. 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.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɹupɚt/ GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Rupert.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en chiefly UK en male Germanic languages.
en 2010 w:Joanne Harris blueeyedboy Doubleday 9780385609500 99 A St Oswald's boy can pass off a name like Orlando, can make it sound like peppermint. Even Rupert sounds somehow cool when attached to a navy-blue St Oswald's blazer.
en 2010 w:Maggie O'Farrell The Hand That First Held Mine Headline 9780755308453 91 'What about Rupert?' his mother says brightly. 'I've always loved the name Rupert and it's an old family name on my side.''Sounds like...a whatdyoucallit?' Ted's father says, folding up the newspaper and tossing it to the floor.'What?''A...' Ted's father puts his hand to his brow '...you know...a thing that children take to bed. Um...Brideshead...um...teddy-bear! That's it. A teddy-bear.'
en Brian Lowry ‘Gossip’ charts how tabloid tattlers ‘escaped from their cages’ and rippled through the media w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/entertainment/gossip-review/index.html 2021-08-20 “Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular. https://web.archive.org/web/20260304051933/https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/entertainment/gossip-review/index.html 4 March 2026
en city/county seat co/Minidoka County s/Idaho.
en unincorporated community s/Ohio.
en town s/Vermont.
en town s/West Virginia.
Derived terms
en Prince Rupert
Noun
en derogatory slang military A junior army officer.
Adjective
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right|thumb|A unit cube with a hole cut through it, large enough to allow another cube of the same size (or even slightly larger) to pass through.
en 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:
A concise way to express that a polyhedron is Rupert is to find two orientations Q and Q of that polyhedron so that π(Q) fits inside π(Q) impact the shape of π(Q) are those lying on P, so if P is locally Rupert, Q should be as well.
en 2024-07-14 Vitor Balestro Horst Martini Ralph Teixeira Convexity from the Geometric Point of View Springer Nature 9783031505072 175 The authors verify that cubes and all rectangular boxes have Rupert passages in any direction not parallel to their faces. Huber [...et al.] succeed in showing that also the n-dimensional cube is Rupert.
en 2024 W. Jianming; W. Wenzong; L. Guangchao; et al Numerical study of the cooling performance of Rupert-shaped film cooling holes International Journal of Thermal Sciences Rupert-shaped film holes in weakening the kidney-shaped vortex generated by the coolant was confirmed. Furthermore, the Rupert-shaped holes improve the attachment of the film to the wall surface. Further analysis indicates that the shape of the Rupert-shaped holes is
German
Alternative forms
de Ruprecht Rupprecht
Etymology
From the de gmh Ruoperht, from de goh Hruodperht, from de gmw-pro *Hrōþiberht, from de gem-pro *Hrōþiberhtaz.
Pronunciation
de De-Rupert.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de male Middle High German Robert