truncated cube
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A polyhedron with eight triangular and six octagonal faces that is an Archimedean solid and can be constructed by truncating a cube at each vertex along each adjoining edge.
Example Sentences
- "The truncation procedure that produced the truncated cube I can be applied to arbitrary polyhedra so as to obtain new polyhedra."
- "The truncated cubes are obtained by symmetrically edging the eight vertices of the cube by l × t, where l is the length of the cubes side and 0 < t ≤ 1/2. When t = 1/2, a cuboctahedron is obtained."
- "In this subsection the optical behavior of different truncated cubes will be analyzed and compared to those of a cube and of a sphere of the same dimensions."
- "Truncated cubes can be packed sharing their octagonal faces, the remaining voids are filled by octahedra (Figure 10(b))."