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great rhombicuboctahedron en · NOUN

Etymology

From great + rhombicuboctahedron, referring to the fact that, similarly to the rhombicuboctahedron, the 12 square faces lie in the same planes as the 12 faces of the rhombic dodecahedron, the dual of the cuboctahedron.

Meanings

1. An Archimedean solid that is isogonal and has twenty-six regular faces (twelve square, eight hexagonal and six octagonal).
   • 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). 2005, M. Cahay, Nanoscale Devices, Materials, and Biological Systems: Fundamentals and Applications : Proceedings of the International Symposium, page 513:
   • Figure 244 — the structure for this complicated design is the great rhombicuboctahedron, which consists of octagonal, hexagonal, and square faces. 1977, Wucius Wong, Principles of Three Dimensional Design, page 70:
   • The great rhombicuboctahedron can be made by truncating the cuboctahedron's vertices. 2012, Edward S. Popko, Divided Spheres: Geodesics and the Orderly Subdivision of the Sphere, page 169:

Forms

Deriveds

pseudo-great rhombicuboctahedron

Synonyms

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

Translations (2)

it grande rombicubottaedro (polyhedron with 12 square, 8 hexagonal and 6 octagonal faces) · it cubottaedro troncato (polyhedron with 12 square, 8 hexagonal and 6 octagonal faces)