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snub cubes

snub cubes is the plural of snub cube.

Meaning of snub cube

Noun

snub cube (plural snub cubes)

  1. An Archimedean solid with thirty-eight faces, of which six are squares (no two of which share a vertex) and thirty-two are equilateral triangles.
    • Robinson [67] showed in 1961 that the best packing of 24 points is achieved by the vertices of a regular snub cube, one of the Archimedean solids (cf. [20]).1995, R. H. Hardin, N. J. A. Sloane, Codes (Spherical) and Designs (Experimental), Robert Calderbank (editor), Different Aspects of Coding Theory: American Mathematical Society Short Course...
    Synonyms:
    cubus sinus, snub cuboctahedron

Questions about snub cubes

What is snub cubes the plural of?
Snub cubes is the plural of snub cube.

Words near snub cubes in the dictionary

  1. SNTX
  2. SNU
  3. snu snu
  4. snub
  5. snub cube
  6. snub cubes
  7. snub disphenoid
  8. snub disphenoids
  9. snub dodecahedra
  10. snub dodecahedron
  11. snub nose

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