"tetrakis hexahedron" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: tetrakis hexahedra [plural], tetrakis hexahedrons [plural]
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  1. (geometry) A Catalan solid that has 24 congruent triangular faces and 36 edges and can be imagined as a cube with a square pyramid on each face. Wikipedia link: tetrakis hexahedron Categories (topical): Geometry, Polyhedra Synonyms: tetrakishexahedron, tetrakis-hexahedron Synonyms (cube with a square pyramid on each face): dysdakis hexahedron, hextetrahedron, hexatetrahedron, kiscube, tetrahexahedron Translations (polyhedron with 24 triangular faces and 36 edges): tetracisesaedro [masculine] (Italian)

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