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tetrakis hexahedron

tetrakis hexahedron noun: a Catalan solid that has 24 congruent triangular faces and 36 edges and can be imagined as a cube with a square pyramid on each face.

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Noun

tetrakis hexahedron (plural tetrakis hexahedra or tetrakis hexahedrons)

  1. A Catalan solid that has 24 congruent triangular faces and 36 edges and can be imagined as a cube with a square pyramid on each face.
    • Of the fourteen crystals examined, five were from the Karnul district (four tetrakis-hexahedra and one octahedron with tetrakis-hexahedron), one from Sambalpur (tetrakis-hexahedron with octahedron, four from Panna (much distorted tetrakis-hexahedra), the remaining four said to have come from Simla.1904, Max Bauer, translated by L. J. Spencer, Precious Stones, volume 1, published 1968, page 154
    • In the Isometric Tribe can be found the families of the Tetrakis Hexahedrons and Octahedrons, with their various descendants.1909, Marshman Edward Wadsworth, Crystallography: An Elementary Manual for the Laboratory, page 189
    Synonyms:
    dysdakis hexahedron, hextetrahedron, hexatetrahedron, kiscube, tetrahexahedron

Synonyms of tetrakis hexahedron

Forms of tetrakis hexahedron

pluraltetrakis hexahedra
pluraltetrakis hexahedrons
alternative formtetrakishexahedron
alternative formtetrakis-hexahedron

Questions about tetrakis hexahedron

What does tetrakis hexahedron mean?
Tetrakis hexahedron means a Catalan solid that has 24 congruent triangular faces and 36 edges and can be imagined as a cube with a square pyramid on each face.
What part of speech is tetrakis hexahedron?
Tetrakis hexahedron is a noun.
What is the plural of tetrakis hexahedron?
The plural of tetrakis hexahedron is tetrakis hexahedra.

Words near tetrakis hexahedron in the dictionary

  1. tetraketones
  2. tetrakionia
  3. tetrakionion
  4. tetrakis
  5. tetrakis hexahedra
  6. tetrakis hexahedron
  7. tetrakis hexahedrons
  8. tetrakis legomena
  9. tetrakis legomenon
  10. tetrakis-
  11. tetrakishexahedra

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