hexaoctahedron
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The writer has seen a remarkably fine specimen of alluvial (Ballaarat) gold, it was a group of inch and half-inch crystals of the hexaoctahedron crystallographic form, hollowing towards the centre of the faces stair fashion, parallel to the combination lines."
- "Diamond, C. I. In octahedrons, hexaoctahedrons; cleavage octahedral."
- "The natural crystalline form of diamonds is a regular octahedron although a few have been found that were hexaoctahedrons.[…]Hexaoctahedrons have forty-eight faces."
- "The seven kinds consist of three unique forms which are the cube, octahedron, and rhombic dodecahedron, and four families of forms having the shape of icositetrahedra, trisoctahedra, tetrahexahedra, and hexaoctahedra."
- "It usually forms rounded octahedra, often twinned, transparent, yellow, brown, green, less often blue and black; it rarely occurs in the form of hexaoctahedra."