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octahedron [Am ˌɑktəˈhidrən, Brit ˌɒktəˈhiːdrən] N

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The church is planned as an octahedron, with three masses set on one another. en.wikipedia.org

The cuboctahedron, the truncated cube, and the truncated octahedron each have fourteen faces. en.wikipedia.org

At each linked edge two oxygen ions are shared between two octahedra, and each octahedron must have two shared edges to form a chain. en.wikipedia.org

The cuboctahedron is a rectified cube and also a rectified octahedron. en.wikipedia.org

The "tetragonal trisoctahedron" is another name for the deltoidal icositetrahedron, a different polyhedron with three quadrilateral faces for every face of an octahedron. en.wikipedia.org

For example diamonds, which have a cubic crystal system, are often found as octahedrons. en.wikipedia.org

The closest vertex of the 16-cell to the viewer projects onto the center of the octahedron. en.wikipedia.org

The intersection of the two tetrahedra form an inner octahedron, which shares the same face-planes as the compound. en.wikipedia.org

For example the cube and the regular octahedron share the same symmetry, as do the regular dodecahedron and icosahedron. en.wikipedia.org

Since it has eight faces, it is an octahedron. en.wikipedia.org

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