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octahedron: see polyhedron polyhedron (pŏl'ēhē`drən), closed solid bounded by plane faces; each face of a polyhedron is a polygon . ..... Click the link for more information. . octahedron a solid figure having eight plane faces octahedron [‚ak·tə′hē·drən] (mathematics) A polyhedron having eight faces, each of which is an equilateral triangle. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The Scripps team is now designing octahedrons to serve as scaffolds for assembling materials or as hollow structures for carrying a cargo of proteins. We've seen some spectacular, clear, incredibly well-preserved octahedrons (the preferred shape of. I had always enormously disliked the complicated sculptures made of conglomerates of tetrahedrons and octahedrons, such as Gracehoper, The Snake Is Out, and Moses, that eventually became Smith's signature. |
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