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tetrahedron::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | polyhedron |
Examples of tetrahedron
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The tetrahedron, cube, and octahedron all occur naturally in crystal structures.
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Other Platonic solids include the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the icosahedron.
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This statement is illustrated in three dimensions by the tetrahedron in the figure.
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They will be at the corners of an imaginary tetrahedron, some 1000 kilometres apart.
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Like all convex polyhedra, a tetrahedron can be folded from a single sheet of paper.
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However, there is at least one irregular tetrahedron of which copies can tile space.
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The Austrian artist Martina Schettina created a tetrahedron using fluorescent lamps.
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The tetrahedron package made Tetra Pak one of the world's most successful companies.
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Three, the tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron, have triangular faces.
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- Any polyhedron having four plane faces
- In geometry, a tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra) is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, three of which meet at each vertex. A regular tetrahedron is one in which the four triangles are regular, or "equilateral", and is one of the Platonic solids. ...
- Tetrahedron is a scientific journal publishing full original research papers in the field of organic chemistry. The impact factor of this journal is 2.817 (2007). It has published a number of highly cited papers, seven of which having >1000 citation each (according to Web of Science, 2008)
- An underwater obstacle taking its name from its geometrical shape; used by the Germans to scuttle landing craft.
- Ground-based, free-rotating, triangular-shaped wind direction indicator, generally placed near a runway, often lighted at major airports.
- Minimum Structure of Universe: 4 Windows, 6 Edges, 4 Corners
- A glorified triangle; see sacred geometry.
- A shape formed by having four sides, all triangles
- A crystal form in cubic crystals having symmetry 43m or 23. It is a four-faced polyhedron, of which each face is an equilateral triangle.
