rhombicuboctahedron
rhombicuboctahedron noun: an Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.
Noun
rhombicuboctahedron (plural rhombicuboctahedra or rhombicuboctahedrons)
- An Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.
- Therefore eight triangles and eighteen (that is, twelve and six) squares join up to make an icosihexahedron, which I call a truncated cuboctahedral rhombus or a rhombicuboctahedron.1997, Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, Judith Veronica Field, transl., The harmony of the world, American Philosophical Society, page 119
- The gaps in a face-centered cubic packing of square sharing rhombicuboctahedra can be filled by cubes and tetrahedra (Fig. 2.4(h)).2009, Walter Steurer, Sofia Deloudi, Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures, page 55
- Synonyms:
- small rhombicuboctahedron
- Either of the small rhombicuboctahedron and great rhombicuboctahedron.
Synonyms of rhombicuboctahedron
- small rhombicuboctahedron
Forms of rhombicuboctahedron
| plural | rhombicuboctahedra |
|---|---|
| plural | rhombicuboctahedrons |
Origin of rhombicuboctahedron
From Latin rhombicuboctahaedron, referring to the fact that the twelve of the square faces lie in the same planes as the twelve faces of the rhombic dodecahedron, the dual of the cuboctahedron. (See rhombicuboctahedron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
Words formed from rhombicuboctahedron
- great rhombicuboctahedron
- rhombicuboctahedral
- pseudo-rhombicuboctahedron
- pseudorhombicuboctahedron
- quasirhombicuboctahedron
Questions about rhombicuboctahedron
- What does rhombicuboctahedron mean?
- Rhombicuboctahedron means an Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.
- What part of speech is rhombicuboctahedron?
- Rhombicuboctahedron is a noun.
- What is the plural of rhombicuboctahedron?
- The plural of rhombicuboctahedron is rhombicuboctahedra.
Words near rhombicuboctahedron in the dictionary
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