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A great rhombicuboctahedron

Noun

great rhombicuboctahedron ‎(plural great rhombicuboctahedra or great rhombicuboctahedrons)

1. (geometry) An Archimedean solid that is isogonal and has twenty-six regular faces (twelve square, eight hexagonal and six octagonal).
   • 1977, Wucius Wong, Principles of Three Dimensional Design, page 70,

     Figure 244 — the structure for this complicated design is the great rhombicuboctahedron, which consists of octagonal, hexagonal, and square faces.

   • 2005, M. Cahay, Nanoscale Devices, Materials, and Biological Systems: Fundamentals and Applications : Proceedings of the International Symposium, page 513,

     Zeolite A consists of truncated octahedra flanking the edges of a larger cube; they are connected along the edges by smaller cubes, and the truncated octahedra and cubes flank a great rhombicuboctahedron at the center (28).

   • 2012, Edward S. Popko, Divided Spheres: Geodesics and the Orderly Subdivision of the Sphere, page 169,

     The great rhombicuboctahedron can be made by truncating the cuboctahedron's vertices.

Synonyms

• (polyhedron with 12 square, 8 hexagonal and 6 octagonal faces): truncated cuboctahedron

Derived terms

• pseudo-great rhombicuboctahedron

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