plesiohedron

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Etymology[edit]

plesio- +‎ -hedron

Noun[edit]

plesiohedron (plural plesiohedra)

  1. (geometry) A special kind of space-filling polyhedron, defined as the Voronoi cell of a symmetric Delone set. Three-dimensional Euclidean space can be completely filled by copies of any one of these shapes, with no overlaps.
    The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron.
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