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Definition of Rhombohedrons

Rhombohedron
Rhombohedron Rhom`bo*he"dron, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ??? rhomb + ??? seat, base.] (Geom. & Crystallog.) A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

Meaning of Rhombohedrons from wikipedia

- In geometry, a rhombohedron (also called a rhombic hexahedron or, inaccurately, a rhomboid) is a special case of a parallelepiped in which all six faces...
- rectangular cuboids, parallelepiped is a cuboid with six parallelogram faces. Rhombohedron is a cuboid with six rhombus faces. A square frustum is a frustum with...
- scalene or rhomboid. The variety with rhombus-shaped faces faces is a rhombohedron. An alternative name for the same shape is the trigonal deltohedron....
- zonohedrons, which can be seen as projective envelopes of hypercubes. A rhombohedron (also called a rhombic hexahedron) is a three-dimensional figure like...
- In geometry, the elongated gyrobifastigium or gabled rhombohedron is a space-filling octahedron with 4 rectangles and 4 right-angled pentagonal faces....
- parallelepiped, with pairs of parallel opposite faces, and more specifically a rhombohedron, with congruent edges, and a rectangular cuboid, with right angles between...
- rectangular cuboid (six rectangular faces), cube (six square faces), and the rhombohedron (six rhombus faces) are all special cases of parallelepiped. "Parallelepiped"...
- Rhombohedrons of calcite that appear almost as books of petals, piled up 3-dimensionally on the matrix, from Eastern Europe...
- shape is a six-sided prism terminating with six-sided pyramid-like rhombohedrons at each end. In nature, quartz crystals are often twinned (with twin...
- Echinosphaerites aurantium (Middle Ordovician, northeastern Estonia) Rhombohedrons of calcite that appear almost as books of petals, piled up 3-dimensionally...