Cuboctahedron

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Noun
  1. 1
    An Archimedean solid that has fourteen faces (eight triangular and six square) and is both isogonal and isotoxal.

    "There are just two polyhedra that will fulfill these conditions: the cuboctahedron and the icosidodecahedron (Diagram 3.3)."

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heptaparallelohedronheptaparallelohedron

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"There are just two polyhedra that will fulfill these conditions: the cuboctahedron and the icosidodecahedron (Diagram 3.3)."

Etymology

Blend of cube + octahedron, reflecting the fact that it can be regarded both as a rectified cube and a rectified octahedron.

Related phrases

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