rhombohedron
[ rom-buh-hee-druh n ]
/ ˌrɒm bəˈhi drən /
noun, plural rhom·bo·he·drons, rhom·bo·he·dra [rom-buh-hee-druh] /ˌrɒm bəˈhi drə/.
a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
OTHER WORDS FROM rhombohedron
rhom·bo·he·dral, adjectiveWords nearby rhombohedron
rhombic,
rhombic aerial,
rhombo-,
rhombocele,
rhombohedral,
rhombohedron,
rhomboid,
rhomboid fossa,
rhomboid ligament,
rhomboidal sinus,
rhomboideus
Example sentences from the Web for rhombohedron
This plane, which truncates the edge of the rhombohedron and has the indices , is called a “glide-plane.”
As in the other rhombohedral carbonates, the crystals possess perfect cleavages parallel to the faces of the rhombohedron.
British Dictionary definitions for rhombohedron
rhombohedron
/ (ˌrɒmbəʊˈhiːdrən) /
noun
a six-sided prism whose sides are parallelograms
Word Origin for rhombohedron
C19: from
rhombus +
-hedron
Scientific definitions for rhombohedron
rhombohedron
[ rŏm′bō-hē′drən ]
Plural rhombohedrons rhombohedra
A prism with six faces, each a rhombus.