octahedron
(noun) any polyhedron having eight plane faces
Source: WordNet® 3.1
octahedron (plural octahedra or octahedrons)
(geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.
Source: Wiktionary
Oc`ta*he"dron, n. Etym: [Gr. (Geom.)
Definition: A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
