Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homohedral

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ho-mo-he-dral
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having equal or corresponding faces.

Example Sentences

"The second is a hemihedral combination of which no corresponding homohedral variety has been discovered, and no hemihexakisoctahedrons have been found to correspond with the rest of the known hexakisoctahedrons, § 408."
"M. Pasteur has also carefully examined the crystalline forms of several salts of racemic acid,—particularly the neutral and acid racemates of soda and the racemate of antimony and potash—and finds them all perfectly homohedral."
"Homohedral and tangential polyhedral shapes are found to be suitable for the task and some examples of linkages are worked out."

Etymology

From homo- + -hedral.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: homo
Suffix: hedral

Questions

What does homohedral mean?: Having equal or corresponding faces.
Where does homohedral come from?: From homo- + -hedral.

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