tetrahexahedron

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Etymology

tetra- +‎ hexahedron

Noun

tetrahexahedron (plural tetrahexahedrons or tetrahexahedra)

  1. (crystallography) A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.

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