truncated octahedron
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.04 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A zonohedron that has 14 faces (eight regular hexagons and six squares) and 36 edges and is an Archimedean solid.
Example Sentences
- "The closest packing of truncated octahedra can be considered to be a denser packing than that of the rhombic dodecahedron because in a space filling array each truncated octahedron is surrounded by 14 others corresponding to its 14 faces, while the rhombic dodecahedron is only surrounded by 12 like cells."
- "The K-complex is built by taking the truncated octahedrons as 3-cells, and its faces, edges and vertex^([sic]) respectively as 2-cells, 1-cells, and 0-cells."
- "2007, Rebecca L. Wolfe, Novel Gold Monolayer Protected Clusters: Synthesis, Characterization, Separation, and Functionalization, PhD Thesis, page 29, Many proposed MPC cores, including Au₁₄₀ and Au₂₂₅, are truncated octahedrons, referred to as TO+ because the shapes are (0 < n - m = 4), where n is the number of atoms between (111) facets and m is the number of atoms between (111) and (100) facets."