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plesiohedron

plesiohedron noun: 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.

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.

Forms of plesiohedron

pluralplesiohedra

Origin of plesiohedron

From plesio- + -hedron.

Questions about plesiohedron

What does plesiohedron mean?
Plesiohedron means 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.
What part of speech is plesiohedron?
Plesiohedron is a noun.
What is the plural of plesiohedron?
The plural of plesiohedron is plesiohedra.

Words near plesiohedron in the dictionary

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

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