triskaidecahedron

English

Alternative forms

• triskaidekahedron

Etymology

From triskaideca- +‎ -hedron.

Noun

triskaidecahedron (plural triskaidecahedra or triskaidecahedrons)

1. Synonym of tridecahedron
   • 1935, R[oger] P[hilip] Wodehouse, “Pollen-grain Characters”, in Pollen Grains: Their structure, identification and significance in science and medicine, New York, N.Y., London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., part I (General), section 2 (The Trischistoclasic System), page 197:

     From the various dodecahedrons may be derived seven triskaidecahedrons, and from these in turn may be derived seven tetrakaidecahedrons.

   • 1968, Donald G. Wood, Space Enclosure Systems: The Variables of Packing Cell Design, page 17:

     These demonstrations (Figures 6, 7, 8, and 9) are operations available to the trigonal, tetragonal tetrakaidecahedra, and triskaidecahedron (Figures 10, 11 and 12).

   • 2015 July 20, Matías Sepúlveda-Macías, Nicolás Amigo, Gonzalo Gutiérrez, “Onset of plasticity and its relation to atomic structure in CuZr metallic glass nanowire: A molecular dynamics study”, in Journal of Alloys and Compounds, page 359, column 2:

     Beyond 13% of strain, where the SB is already formed, the predominant class is the 13-face polyhedra, in particular the triskaidecahedra characterized by Voronoi index 〈0, 3, 6, 4〉.