Plural of octahedron

Forms of octahedron

Octahedra and octahedrons in a sentence

• Octahedra are also needed to make the packing of square-sharing cuboctahedra space filling (Fig. 2.4(c)).2009, Walter Steurer, Sofia Deloudi, Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures, page 54. From the entry cuboctahedron
• Truncated cubes can be packed sharing their octagonal faces, the remaining voids are filled by octahedra (Figure 10(b)).2014, Walter Steurer, “1: Crystal Structures of Metallic Elements and Compounds”, in David E. Laughlin, Kazuhiro Hono, editors, Physical…. From the entry truncated cube
• They observed hard triangular prisms and hard gyrobifastigia to directly transform into their space-filling crystal, while hard truncated octahedra, rhombic.2012, Amir Haji Akbari Balou, Thermodynamics of the Hard Tetrahedron System (PhD Dissertation in Chemical Engineering, University of…. From the entry gyrobifastigium
• Its pore structure consists of truncated octahedra linked to other cavities through 6-membered rings and of truncated cuboctahedra linked together through 8-membered rings.2013, István Palinkó, Zoltán Kónya, Ákos Kukovecz, Imre Kiricsi, “22: Zeolites”, in Robert Vajtai, editor, Springer Handbook of…. From the entry truncated cuboctahedron
• It usually forms rounded octahedra, often twinned, transparent, yellow, brown, green, less often blue and black; it rarely occurs in the form of hexaoctahedra.1994, Zdenka Náglová, transl., Minerals and Rocks, Magna Books, translation of original by Jiří Kouřimský, →ISBN, page 156. From the entry hexaoctahedron

Meaning of octahedron

1. noun A polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.

Full definition of octahedron

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Questions about the plural of octahedron

What is the plural of octahedron?

The plural of octahedron is octahedra or octahedrons.

Which is correct, octahedra or octahedrons?

Both are used. octahedra is the more common of the two in English writing.

Is octahedron countable?

Octahedron is a countable noun.