holyhedron en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Blend of hole or holey and polyhedron
Meanings
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A polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a polygonal hole in every face, the holes' boundaries sharing no point with each other or the face's boundary.
John Conway of Princeton University offered a reward in the 1990s to anyone producing a holyhedron, a polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a hole in every face. […] Conway had predicted that someone will eventually find a holyhedron with fewer than 100 faces.
1969, Charles Miller, Vern Heeren, John Hornsby, Margaret Morrow, Jill Van Newenhizen, Mathematical Ideas, 11th edition:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| holyhedra | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (3)
ru холиэдр (Translations) · pl wielościan z dziurami (Translations) · fi reikäinen monitahokas (Translations)