trisoctahedron love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A solid figure having 24 equal faces, every three of which correspond to one face of an octahedron.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun This name is usually limited to the isometric form having triangular faces, formerly called a trigonal trisoctahedron.
  • noun In crystallography, a solid bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Crystallog.) A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.
  • noun a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron.
  • noun a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun crystallography A solid of the isometric system bounded by 24 equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek tris, thrice; see trei- in Indo-European roots + octahedron.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Ancient Greek thrice + English octahedron.

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