rhombicuboctahedron
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
13
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Meaning
noun
An Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.
noun
Either of the small rhombicuboctahedron and great rhombicuboctahedron.
Example Sentences
- "Therefore eight triangles and eighteen (that is, twelve and six) squares join up to make an icosihexahedron, which I call a truncated cuboctahedral rhombus or a rhombicuboctahedron."
- "The gaps in a face-centered cubic packing of square sharing rhombicuboctahedra can be filled by cubes and tetrahedra (Fig. 2.4(h))."
- "So, for instance, covering up the right-hand side of our example (as in Figure 20.2(a)), we see that the rhombicuboctahedron does indeed have three types of face: two four-sided ones and one three-sided one."
Etymology
From Latin rhombicuboctahaedron, referring to the fact that the twelve of the square faces lie in the same planes as the twelve faces of the rhombic dodecahedron, the dual of the cuboctahedron. (See rhombicuboctahedron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
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small rhombicuboctahedron