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Words related to tetrahedron

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  • sorosilicate

    any of the silicates in which each silicate tetrahedron shares one of its four oxygen atoms with a neighboring tetrahedron, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being two to seven.

  • -hedron

    indicating a geometric solid having a specified number of faces or surfaces

  • geodesic dome

    a light, domelike structure developed by R. Buckminster Fuller to combine the properties of the tetrahedron and the sphere and consisting essentially of a grid of compression or tension members lying upon or parallel to great circles running in three directions in any given area, the typical form being the projection upon a sphere of an icosahedron, the triangular faces of which are filled with a symmetrical triangular, hexagonal, or quadrangular grid.

  • platonic solid

    one of the five regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, icosahedron, or dodecahedron.

  • polyhedron

    a solid figure having many faces.

  • simplex

    simple; consisting of or characterized by a single element.
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