Definitions for octahedrons

octahedrons oc·ta·he·dron

Spelling: [ok-tuh-hee-druh n]
IPA: /ˌɒk təˈhi drən/

Octahedrons is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1686 anagrams from letters in octahedrons (acdehnoorst).

Definitions for octahedrons

noun

  1. a solid figure having eight faces.

Origin of octahedrons

1560-70; Greek oktáedron eight-sided (neuter of oktáedros), equivalent to okta- octa- + -edron -hedron

Examples for octahedrons

These give the solid angles of the tetrahedron, the octahedron and the icosahedron.

In Venus inscribe an octahedron: the sphere inscribed in it will be Mercury's.

The other piece of money in circulation was octahedron in shape or form.

It is not difficult for a class to find the relative areas of the cube and the inscribed tetrahedron and octahedron.

Combinations of the cube and octahedron are shown in figs. 6-8.

One important property of crystallized Diamond is that of cleavage parallel to the faces of the octahedron.

It may be derived from the octahedron by suppressing the alternate faces.

Of the stauraxonia isopola we have, for instance, the double pyramids, one of the simplest forms of the octahedron.

A cube may be inscribed in an octahedron, its vertices being at the centers of the faces of the octahedron.

The octahedron, having eight equilateral triangles as faces.

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