rhombohedron
- noun
- /ˌrɑːmboʊˈhiːdrən/
- Specialized
- The architect designed a unique building that featured rhombohedrons as part of its modern facade.
Examples
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Adjacent pairs of RTs overlap in a flat golden rhombohedron, creating another closed structure.
Blog text (8) -
Each consisted of hexagonal rhombohedrons, the largest over three meters in length and almost half a meter in diameter.
Fiction book (1999) -
The artist created a stunning sculpture shaped like a rhombohedron using colorful glass panels.
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In geometry class, we learned about the properties of a rhombohedron, which has six rhombus-shaped faces.
Synonyms
A solid shape with six flat faces that are parallelograms like a slanted box
A solid like a box but with slanted sides
A solid shape with six flat faces
A solid shape with six flat faces, like a cube
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rhombohedron comes from the Greek parts rhomb- and -hedron, where rhomb- is the same root as rhombus and means 'diamond shape' and -hedron means 'face' or 'side'. So a rhombohedron is a solid whose faces are rhombuses, which is why its sides look slanted instead of square.