Definition of Octahedron. Meaning of Octahedron. Synonyms of Octahedron

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Definition of Octahedron

Octahedron
Octahedron Oc`ta*he"dron, n. [Gr.?, fr. ? eight-side; ? (for ? eight) + ? seat, base, from ? to sit.] (Geom.) A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.

Meaning of Octahedron from wikipedia

- an octahedron (pl.: octahedra or octahedrons) is a polyhedron with eight faces. The term is most commonly used to refer to the regular octahedron, a Platonic...
- truncated octahedron is the Archimedean solid that arises from a regular octahedron by removing six pyramids, one at each of the octahedron's vertices...
- Octahedron is the fifth full-length studio album by American progressive rock band the Mars Volta, released on June 23, 2009. The album was released by...
- The stellated octahedron is the only stellation of the octahedron. It is also called the stella octangula (Latin for "eight-pointed star"), a name given...
- Snub octahedron may refer to: Icosahedron, with pyritohedral symmetry, s { 3 , 4 } {\displaystyle s{\begin{Bmatrix}3,4\end{Bmatrix}}} , Snub cube, or snub...
- stellated octahedron. The coordinates of the icosahedron are related to two alternated sets of coordinates of a nonuniform truncated octahedron, t{3,4}...
- In geometry, a triakis octahedron (or trigonal trisoctahedron or kisoctahedron) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. Its dual is the truncated...
- In geometry, a hemi-octahedron is an abstract regular polyhedron, containing half the faces of a regular octahedron. It has 4 triangular faces, 6 edges...
- trigonal trapezohedron in four orientations. The cube is dual to the octahedron. It has cubical or octahedral symmetry, and is the only convex polyhedron...
- jitterbug; this object can be progressively transformed into an icosahedron, octahedron, and tetrahedron by folding along the diagonals of its square sides. With...