truncated octahedron
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[edit]Noun
[edit]truncated octahedron (plural truncated octahedra or truncated octahedrons)
- A zonohedron that has 14 faces (eight regular hexagons and six squares) and 36 edges and is an Archimedean solid.
- 1990, [1978], Peter Pearce, Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design, page 5:
- The closest packing of truncated octahedra can be considered to be a denser packing than that of the rhombic dodecahedron because in a space filling array each truncated octahedron is surrounded by 14 others corresponding to its 14 faces, while the rhombic dodecahedron is only surrounded by 12 like cells.
- 2007, Rebecca L. Wolfe, Novel Gold Monolayer Protected Clusters: Synthesis, Characterization, Separation, and Functionalization, PhD Thesis, page 29,
- Many proposed MPC cores, including Au140 and Au225, are truncated octahedrons, referred to as TO+ because the shapes are (0 < n - m = 4), where n is the number of atoms between (111) facets and m is the number of atoms between (111) and (100) facets.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (polyhedron with 14 faces): tetrakaidecahedron / tetrakaidekahedron
Translations
[edit]polyhedron with 14 faces and 36 edges
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