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Definition of Rhombohedron
1. Noun. A parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms).
Derivative terms: Rhombohedral
Definition of Rhombohedron
1. n. A solid contained by six rhomboids; a parallelopiped.
Definition of Rhombohedron
1. Noun. A prism with six faces, each a rhombus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhombohedron
1. [n -DRA or -DRONS]
Medical Definition of Rhombohedron
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhombohedron
Literary usage of Rhombohedron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Mineralogy: Including an Extended Treatise on Crystallography by James Dwight Dana (1837)
"rhombohedron. The rhombohedron has two kinds of solid angles. ... The rhombohedron
is in position when they are situated, the one vertically above the other ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1875)
"On gradually shortening the rhombohedron in fig. 141, it may become JÄ, \R, and
so on, till the length becomes 0, and the rhombohedron is reduced to a flat ..."
3. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"155; when between O and Mo, to a negative or inverse rhombohedron, ... When the
pole is nearer to the centre 0 than the pole of (100), the rhombohedron is ..."
4. Elements of Chemical Physics by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1886)
"It is evident that we may thus make from every rhombohedron an infinite number of
... is always some simple multiple of that of the inscribed rhombohedron. ..."
5. A Popular Guide to Minerals by Louis Pope Gratacap (1912)
"The skew rhombohedron is a ... 188 is a positive rhombohedron, Fig. 189 is a
negative rhombohedron. ..."
6. Elements of Chemical Physics by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1873)
"have the same position as its terminal edges, and therefore truncate them This
rhombohedron is called the first obtuse rhombohedron. ..."
7. Elements of Chemical Physics by Josiah Parsons Cooke (1873)
"This rhombohedron is called the inscribed rhombohedron of the ... may evidently
be formed from the inscribed rhombohedron by prolonging the vertical axis, ..."
8. Complete Mineral Catalog by Warren Mathews Foote (1909)
"_ Corundum .50 base c (0001) Hematite .75 94* Pyramid of second order n (2243),
rhombohedron r (10T1) and curved rhombohedron u ..."
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