tetrakis hexahedron
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.86 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Catalan solid that has 24 congruent triangular faces and 36 edges and can be imagined as a cube with a square pyramid on each face.
Example Sentences
- "Of the fourteen crystals examined, five were from the Karnul district (four tetrakis-hexahedra and one octahedron with tetrakis-hexahedron), one from Sambalpur (tetrakis-hexahedron with octahedron, four from Panna (much distorted tetrakis-hexahedra), the remaining four said to have come from Simla."
- "In the Isometric Tribe can be found the families of the Tetrakis Hexahedrons and Octahedrons, with their various descendants."
- "The goniometrical angle over the longer edges, that is, the angle between the normals to each pair of faces intersecting in a longer edge, in the cases of the two tetrakis hexahedra most frequently met with, has the following values:"
- "Not one exhibits plane faces or straight edges, being mostly distorted triakis-octahedra or tetrakis-hexahedra with finely striated curved faces."
- "Because of this another polyhedron – the tetrakis hexahedron – that has 14 vertices and 24 faces might be also a good model. The tetrakis hexahedron is slightly less regular than an icosahedron."
Inflected Forms
tetrakis hexahedra (plural)
tetrakis hexahedrons (plural)
tetrakishexahedron (alternative)
tetrakis-hexahedron (alternative)