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Octahedron

Octahedron Meaning & Definition
Octahedron Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Octahedron?

[n] any polyhedron having eight plane faces

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Octahedron In Webster's Dictionary

\Oc`ta*he"dron\, n. [Gr.?, fr. ? eight-side; ? (for ? eight) + ? seat, base, from ? to sit.] (Geom.) A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.

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