As of 2019, Starbucks opens a new store every 15 hours in China. The coffee chain has grown by 700% over the past decade.
TRISOCTAHEDRON
Etymology
Noun
trisoctahedron (plural trisoctahedrons or trisoctahedra)
(crystallography) A solid of the isometric system bounded by 24 equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.
Source: Wiktionary
Tris*oc`ta*he"dron, n. Etym: [Gr. octahedron.] (Crystallog.)
Definition: A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron. Tetragonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also trapezohedron and icositetrahedron.
– Trigonal trisoctahedron, a trisoctahedron each face of which is an isosceles triangle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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