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The name (introduced by Wiener, 1901), refers to the concept of an anharmonic ratio, or cross-ratio. Four points $A,B,C,D$ are called equianharmonic if their cross-ratio is a cube root of 1. In that case the 6 cross-ratios obtained by combining the four points in all possible ways are the same ("equal anharmonic ratio" = "equianharmonic").