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cubo-octahedron

cubo-octahedron is the alternative form of cuboctahedron.

Meaning of cuboctahedron

Noun

cuboctahedron (plural cuboctahedrons or cuboctahedra)

  1. An Archimedean solid that has fourteen faces (eight triangular and six square) and is both isogonal and isotoxal.
    • There are just two polyhedra that will fulfill these conditions: the cuboctahedron and the icosidodecahedron (Diagram 3.3).1976, Hugh Kenner, Geodesic Math and how to Use it, page 21

Forms of cubo-octahedron

pluralcubo-octahedrons
pluralcubo-octahedra

Questions about cubo-octahedron

What is cubo-octahedron the alternative form of?
Cubo-octahedron is the alternative form of cuboctahedron.

Words near cubo-octahedron in the dictionary

  1. cubo-futurist
  2. cubo-futuristic
  3. cubo-futurists
  4. cubo-octahedra
  5. cubo-octahedral
  6. cubo-octahedron
  7. cubo-octahedrons
  8. cuboargyrite
  9. cubocalcaneal
  10. cuboctahedra
  11. cuboctahedral

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