Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An auxiliary prism; part of a compound prism placed with its refractive edge in a reversed position.
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- noun A
polyhedron composed of twoparallel copies of some particularpolygon , connected by analternating band oftriangles .
Etymologies
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anti- + prism
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Examples
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But math-crazy Lovecraft would have known that a trapezohedron is an "antiprism."
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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