Etymology

muoctahedron

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Today it means: A regular skew apeirohedron with four hexagons around each vertex, formed by an infinite number of octahedron-like cells (specifically, truncated octahedra missing their square faces, and joined by the resulting square-shaped holes) in Euclidean 3D space. Full definition →

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Short for multiple octahedron.

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