octahedron
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octahedron (ˌɒktəˈhiːdrən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -drons, -dra | |
| a solid figure having eight plane faces | |
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Octahedron
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| octahedron (ŏk'tə-hē'drən) Pronunciation Key
Plural octahedrons or octahedra A polyhedron that has eight faces. |
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Example sentences
All faces of a regular octahedron are congruent, equilateral triangles.
For example, diamonds maybe cleaved in four directions parallel to the faces of an octahedron.
The relative lengths of the facets suggest a polyhedral morphology approximately halfway between an octahedron and a cube.
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