Rhombicuboctahedron

Quick meaning: Rhombicuboctahedron is a noun meaning (geometry) An Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.

Meaning

(geometry) An Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.

More Meanings

1. (in combination) Either of the small rhombicuboctahedron and great rhombicuboctahedron.

Example Sentences

The gaps in a face-centered cubic packing of square sharing rhombicuboctahedra can be filled by cubes and tetrahedra (Fig. 2.4(h)).

Therefore eight triangles and eighteen (that is, twelve and six) squares join up to make an icosihexahedron, which I call a truncated cuboctahedral rhombus or a rhombicuboctahedron.

So, for instance, covering up the right-hand side of our example (as in Figure 20.2(a)), we see that the rhombicuboctahedron does indeed have three types of face: two four-sided ones and one three-sided one.

Word Forms

• rhombicuboctahedra
• rhombicuboctahedrons

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rhombicosidodecahedron, cuboctahedron, rhombicdodecahedron, rhombihexahedron, rhombidodecahedron, cubicuboctahedron.

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