Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A solid formed by erecting on each face of the regular octahedron a pyramid of such an altitude as to render all the summits regular. It is reciprocally related to the Archimedean truncated cube. See
solid , II., 2, fig. 14.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Crystalloq.) A trigonal trisoctahedron.
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- noun crystallography A
trigonal trisoctahedron .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek for "thrice" + English octahedron.
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