Octahedron Definition

ŏktə-hēdrən
octahedra, octahedrons
noun
A solid figure with eight plane surfaces.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Octahedron

Noun

Singular:
octahedron
Plural:
octahedra, octahedrons

Origin of Octahedron

  • Greek oktaedron from neuter of oktaedros having eight sides okta- octo- -edros sided –hedron

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktō, “eight") + ἕδρα (hedra, “seat").

    From Wiktionary

Octahedron Sentence Examples

  • See the notes for the net of a cube to see how to print this net and make your own cube octahedron.

  • It has 6 octagonal faces (belonging to the original cube), and 8 triangular ones (belonging to the coaxial octahedron).

  • The 38-atom truncated octahedron is the most stable fcc cluster in the size range we consider.

  • Lewis Simon's Gyroscope is a skeletal octahedron with a small hole in the center.

  • This is one of the Platonic solids, and is treated in the article Polyhedron, as is also the derived Archimedean solid named the "truncated tetrahedron"; in addition, the regular tetrahedron has important crystallographic relations, being the hemihedral form of the regular octahedron and consequently a form of the cubic system.

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