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📅 Partly regular 🔷 With mixed faces
semiregular

semiregular

1 6.9
A solid with faces like squares and triangles meeting the same at every corner
  • adjective
  • /ˌsɛmɪˈrɛɡjələr/
  • Specialized
: semirregular
  • A semiregular polyhedron can have both squares and triangles as its faces.

Examples

  • The tiling pattern on the floor was semiregular, combining hexagons and squares at each vertex.

  • Mathematicians study semiregular tessellations to understand complex geometric structures.

  • A semiregular polyhedron can have different types of faces.

  • The semiregular dodecahedron is fascinating to study.

  • A semiregular polyhedron is defined by its arrangement of two or more types of polygonal faces.

  • In geometry class, we learned about semiregular solids, which feature a combination of polygons at their vertices.

  • The architect designed a semiregular structure that utilized both hexagonal and triangular elements in its façade.

How Regular

uniform
77 3.7
regular
37 1.0
semiregular
  • Specialized
1 6.9
irregular
14 3.4

Surface Forms

semiregular positive

Morphology

semiregular = regular (semi-transparent) = semi + regular

The meaning is built from 'semi-' plus 'regular', but sense 1 is a technical geometric term whose exact classification is not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

Semiregular comes from the parts semi- meaning 'partly' or 'half' and regular meaning 'even' or 'the same'. In geometry a semiregular polyhedron has different kinds of faces (for example squares and triangles) but the same pattern at each corner, so it is 'partly regular' in shape.