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nonahedron

nonahedron noun: a polyhedron with nine faces.

Noun

nonahedron (plural nonahedra or nonahedrons)

  1. A polyhedron with nine faces.
    • A polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS), consisting mainly of a mixture of octahedra, nonahedra, and decahedra with bulky and flexible organic substituents, with three secondary hydroxyls per organic group, was used to modify epoxy networks produced by the homopolymerization of diglycidyl...2003 July 1, S. A. Pellice, D. P. Fasce, R. J. J. Williams, “Properties of Epoxy Networks Derived from the Reaction of Diglycidyl Ether of Bisphenol A with Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes...
    Synonyms:
    enneahedron

Synonyms of nonahedron

Forms of nonahedron

pluralnonahedra
pluralnonahedrons

Origin of nonahedron

From nona- + -hedron.

Questions about nonahedron

What does nonahedron mean?
Nonahedron means a polyhedron with nine faces.
What part of speech is nonahedron?
Nonahedron is a noun.
What is the plural of nonahedron?
The plural of nonahedron is nonahedra.

Words near nonahedron in the dictionary

  1. nonagricultural
  2. nonagrochemical
  3. nonagronomic
  4. nonahedra
  5. nonahedral
  6. nonahedron
  7. nonahedrons
  8. nonahydrate
  9. nonahydrates
  10. nonahydride
  11. nonahydrides

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