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Johnson solid

Johnson solid noun: any of a class of convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms).

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Noun

Johnson solid (plural Johnson solids)

  1. Any of a class of convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms).
    • The Johnson solids, combined with the Archimedean polyhedra and five of the regular polyhedra, constitute all the possible convex polyhedra with regular faces..])1986 April, Andrew Hume, Folding Regular Polyhedra, AUUGN: Australian Unix Users Group Newsletter, Volume 6, Number 5, page 40
    • There are other possible models that we have not written about and for which we do not include pictures. namely the Johnson solids and their truncations [2]. (The egg^([truncated hexadecahedron]) is an approximation of a truncation of a Johnson solid.)2003, Rona Gurkewitz, Bennett Arnstein, Multimodular Origami Polyhedra: Archimedeans, Buckyballs and Duality, page 2

Synonyms of Johnson solid

Forms of Johnson solid

pluralJohnson solids

Origin of Johnson solid

From Johnson (“a surname”) + solid, after American mathematician Norman Johnson, who listed them in 1966.

Questions about Johnson solid

What does Johnson solid mean?
Johnson solid means any of a class of convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms).
What part of speech is Johnson solid?
Johnson solid is a noun.
What is the plural of Johnson solid?
The plural of Johnson solid is Johnson solids.

Words near Johnson solid in the dictionary

  1. Johnson neuroectodermal syndrome
  2. Johnson noise
  3. Johnson polyhedra
  4. Johnson polyhedron
  5. Johnson polyhedrons
  6. Johnson solid
  7. Johnson solids
  8. Johnson thermoelectric energy converter
  9. Johnson's algorithm
  10. Johnson's rule
  11. Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma

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