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Octahedron   Listen
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octahedron  n.  (Geom.) A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Octahedron" Quotes from Famous Books



... an object as he sees it, looking at it only with his right eye. Then he can draw a second view of the same object as he sees it with his left eye. It will not be hard to draw a cube or an octahedron in this way; indeed, the first stereoscopic figures were pairs of outlines, right and left, of solid bodies, thus drawn. But the minute details of a portrait, a group, or a landscape, all so nearly alike to the two eyes, yet not identical in each ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various



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