tetrakaidekahedron

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From tetrakaideka- +‎ -hedron.

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tetrakaidekahedron (plural tetrakaidekahedrons or tetrakaidekahedra)

  1. (mathematics) A solid figure having fourteen faces.
    • 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 81:
      Two large flat surfaces and twelve edge facets make each squame a fourteen-sided solid or tetrakaidecahedron.

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  • OED 2nd edition 1989