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rhombohedron
[ rom-buh-hee-druhn ]
noun
, plural rhom·bo·he·drons, rhom·bo·he·dra [rom-b, uh, -, hee, -dr, uh].
- a solid bounded by six rhombic planes.
rhombohedron
/ ˌrɒmbəʊˈhiːdrən /
noun
- a six-sided prism whose sides are parallelograms
rhombohedron
/ rŏm′bō-hē′drən /
, Plural rhombohedrons
- A prism with six faces, each a rhombus.
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Other Words From
- rhombo·hedral adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rhombohedron1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rhombohedron1
C19: from rhombus + -hedron
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Example Sentences
The secondary twin-lamination, parallel to the obtuse rhombohedron e , so common in calcite, does not exist in dolomite.
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Calcite cleaves in three directions parallel to the faces of the primitive rhombohedron.
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This plane, which truncates the edge of the rhombohedron and has the indices , is called a “glide-plane.”
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As in the other rhombohedral carbonates, the crystals possess perfect cleavages parallel to the faces of the rhombohedron.
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