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gyrobifastigia

gyrobifastigia is the plural of gyrobifastigium.

Meaning of gyrobifastigium

Noun

gyrobifastigium (plural gyrobifastigia or gyrobifastigiums)

  1. A polyhedral solid formed by joining two face-regular triangular prisms along corresponding square faces, giving a quarter-turn to one prism. It is noted for being one of the few regular polyhedra that packs in three dimensions.
    • To elucidate this complex correlation, we carried out detailed Monte Carlo simulations of six convex space-filling polyhedrons, namely, truncated octahedrons, rhombic dodecahedrons, hexagonal prisms, cubes, gyrobifastigiums and triangular prisms.2011 February, Umang Agarwal, Fernando A Escobedo, “Mesophase behaviour of polyhedral particles”, in Nature materials, volume 10

Questions about gyrobifastigia

What is gyrobifastigia the plural of?
Gyrobifastigia is the plural of gyrobifastigium.

Words near gyrobifastigia in the dictionary

  1. gyroaverages
  2. gyroaveraging
  3. gyroball
  4. gyroballs
  5. gyrobicupola
  6. gyrobifastigia
  7. gyrobifastigium
  8. gyrobifastigiums
  9. gyrobirotunda
  10. gyrobus
  11. gyrobuses

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