Plesiohedron
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Plesiohedron is a noun meaning (geometry) A special kind of space-filling polyhedron, defined as the Voronoi cell of a symmetric Delone set. Three-dimensional Euclidean space can be completely filled by copies of any one of these shapes, with no overlaps.
Meaning
(geometry) A special kind of space-filling polyhedron, defined as the Voronoi cell of a symmetric Delone set. Three-dimensional Euclidean space can be completely filled by copies of any one of these shapes, with no overlaps.
Example Sentences
The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron.
Word Forms
- plesiohedra
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include parallelohedron, holyhedron, orthoplex, polyhedron, deltahedron, spheropolyhedron.
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