Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

holyhedron

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: holy-he-dron
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a polygonal hole in every face, the holes' boundaries sharing no point with each other or the face's boundary.

Example Sentences

"John Conway of Princeton University offered a reward in the 1990s to anyone producing a holyhedron, a polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a hole in every face. […] Conway had predicted that someone will eventually find a holyhedron with fewer than 100 faces."

Etymology

Blend of hole or holey and polyhedron

Inflected Forms

holyhedra (plural)

Questions

What does holyhedron mean?: A polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a polygonal hole in every face, the holes' boundaries sharing no point with each other or the face's boundary.
Where does holyhedron come from?: Blend of hole or holey and polyhedron

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