enneadecahedron

E1N1N1E1A1D2E1C3A1H4E1D2R1O1N1

noun

A polyhedron with nineteen faces.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounenneadecahedron (plural enneadecahedra or enneadecahedrons)

plural enneadecahedra · plural enneadecahedrons

  1. raregeometryA polyhedron with nineteen faces.

    Guy [24] and Knowlton have independently discovered a uniform unistable enneadecahedron.

    1970, Research Paper, page 22
    2 more examples

    Klamkin noted that [1] contains an improved solution by R.K. Guy to the polyhedron problem, consisting of a doubly truncated 17-sided convex prism, making it an enneadecahedron (19 faces). […] Ogilvy referred to his book [4], where he describes Guy's enneadecahedron.

    1980, Crux Mathematicorum, pages 28, 29

    Our solid is a 17-sided prism, half of whose section is illustrated in Fig. 5, truncated obliquely as in the side view of Fig. 6, so it is an enneadecahedron.

    1990, Murray S. Klamkin, Problems in Applied Mathematics: Selections from SIAM Review, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, →ISBN, page 478

Origin

Translations

Finnish 19-tahokas
  • 19-tahokasTranslations
German Enneadekaeder, Neunzehnflächner
  • EnneadekaederTranslations
  • NeunzehnflächnerTranslations
  • 19-FlächnerTranslations
Polish dziewiętnastościan
  • dziewiętnastościanTranslations
Russian девятнадцатигранник
  • девятнадцатигранник (devjatnadcatigrannik)Translations
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