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OCTAHEDRON (octahedra)
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Irregular inflected form: octahedra
Dictionary entry overview: What does octahedron mean?
• OCTAHEDRON (noun)
The noun OCTAHEDRON has 1 sense:
1. any polyhedron having eight plane faces
Familiarity information: OCTAHEDRON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any polyhedron having eight plane faces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("octahedron" is a kind of...):
polyhedron (a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces)
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