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trapezohedron |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Trapezohedron \Trap`e*zo*he"dron\, n. [NL., from trapezium + Gr ? seat, base, fr ? to sit.] (Crystalloq.) a A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under {Trisoctahedron}. b A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Trisoctahedron \Tris*oc`ta*he"dron\, n. [Gr. ? thrice + FE octahedron.] (Crystallog.) A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron. {Tetragonal trisoctahedron}, a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also {trapezohedron} and {icositetrahedron}. {Trigonal trisoctahedron}, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: trapezohedron n : a polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums
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