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plesiohedra

plesiohedra is the plural of plesiohedron.

Meaning of plesiohedron

Noun

plesiohedron (plural plesiohedra)

  1. A special kind of space-filling polyhedron, defined as the Voronoi cell of a symmetric Delone set. Three-dimensional Euclidean space can be completely filled by copies of any one of these shapes, with no overlaps.
    • The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron.

Questions about plesiohedra

What is plesiohedra the plural of?
Plesiohedra is the plural of plesiohedron.

Words near plesiohedra in the dictionary

  1. plesiobiosis
  2. plesiobiotic
  3. plesiochelyid
  4. plesiochelyids
  5. plesiochronous
  6. plesiohedra
  7. plesiohedron
  8. plesiometacarpal
  9. plesiomorph
  10. plesiomorphic
  11. plesiomorphically

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