Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trisoctahedron"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Trisoctahedron \Tris*oc`ta*he"dron\, n. [Gr. ? thrice + FE.
octahedron.] (Crystallog.)
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.


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