snub cube
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Archimedean solid with thirty-eight faces, of which six are squares (no two of which share a vertex) and thirty-two are equilateral triangles.
Example Sentences
- "1995, R. H. Hardin, N. J. A. Sloane, Codes (Spherical) and Designs (Experimental), Robert Calderbank (editor), Different Aspects of Coding Theory: American Mathematical Society Short Course, Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Volume 50, page 183, Robinson [67] showed in 1961 that the best packing of 24 points is achieved by the vertices of a regular snub cube, one of the Archimedean solids (cf. [20])."
- "1996, William P. Schaefer, The Snub Cube in the Glanville Courtyard of the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology, The Chemical Intelligencer, reprinted in 2015, Balazs Hargittai, István Hargittai (editors), Culture of Chemistry: The Best Articles on the Human Side of 20th-Century Chemistry from the Archives of the Chemical Intelligencer, page 55, A wooden model, though, showed that with a sufficiently strong flow, the entire surface of the solid could be wet; we were given the go-ahead to install a five-foot-tall, granite snub cube in the fountain."
- "Two of these are chiral pairs, the dextro snub cube and its chiral partner, the laevo snub cube; the third is the regular orbit of T_d point symmetry, while the fourth is the regular orbit of Tₕ symmetry."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Phrases
dextro snub cube
laevo snub cube
Synonyms
cubus sinus
snub cuboctahedron