"plesiohedron" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: plesiohedra [plural]
Etymology: plesio- + -hedron Etymology templates: {{confix|en|plesio|hedron}} plesio- + -hedron Head templates: {{en-noun|plesiohedra}} plesiohedron (plural plesiohedra)
  1. (geometry) A special kind of space-filling polyhedron, defined as the Voronoi cell of a symmetric Delone set. Three-dimensional Euclidean space can be completely filled by copies of any one of these shapes, with no overlaps. Wikipedia link: plesiohedron Categories (topical): Geometry, Polyhedra

Inflected forms

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