Quaquaversal
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Quaquaversal means "turned in whatever way towards a single point", from Latin quisquis. In reference to mathematics, it describes the quaquaversal tilings of euclidean 3-space defined by Conway–Radin (Invent. math. 132 (1998), 179–188). In astronomy it means to dips in all directions towards a center core and would refer, for example, to the black holes formed from the central crater of a gravitational pull.[clarification needed][dubious ]
The word features in the novels Work Shirts for Madmen by George Singleton, and Vineland and Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.
