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Definition of Rhombohedrons

Rhombohedron
Rhombohedron Rhom`bo*he"dron, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ??? rhomb + ??? seat, base.] (Geom. & Crystallog.) A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.

Meaning of Rhombohedrons from wikipedia

- In geometry, a rhombohedron (also called a rhombic hexahedron or, inaccurately, a rhomboid) is a special case of a parallelepiped in which all six faces...
- scalene or rhomboid. The variety with rhombus-shaped faces faces is a rhombohedron. An alternative name for the same shape is the trigonal deltohedron....
- rectangular cuboids, parallelepiped is a cuboid with six parallelogram. Rhombohedron is a cuboid with six rhombus faces. A square frustum is a frustum with...
- Quadrilateral-faced hexahedral prismatoids: Parallelepipeds – six parallelogram faces Rhombohedrons – six rhombus faces Trigonal trapezohedra – six congruent rhombus faces...
- In geometry, the elongated gyrobifastigium or gabled rhombohedron is a space-filling octahedron with 4 rectangles and 4 right-angled pentagonal faces....
- Echinosphaerites aurantium (Middle Ordovician, northeastern Estonia) Rhombohedrons of calcite that appear almost as books of petals, piled up 3-dimensionally...
- shape is a six-sided prism terminating with six-sided pyramid-like rhombohedrons at each end. In nature, quartz crystals are often twinned (with twin...
- Dark teal, emerald green Crystal habit Six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedrons, to m****ive Cleavage Perfect in three directions Fracture Conchoidal...
- zonohedrons, which can be seen as projective envelopes of hypercubes. A rhombohedron (also called a rhombic hexahedron) is a three-dimensional figure like...
- Rhombohedrons of calcite that appear almost as books of petals, piled up 3-dimensionally on the matrix, from Eastern Europe...