great rhombicuboctahedron

plural great rhombicuboctahedra · plural great rhombicuboctahedrons

1. geometryAn Archimedean solid that is isogonal and has twenty-six regular faces (twelve square, eight hexagonal and six octagonal).

   The great rhombicuboctahedron can be made by truncating the cuboctahedron's vertices.

   2012, Edward S. Popko, Divided Spheres: Geodesics and the Orderly Subdivision of the Sphere, page 169

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   Figure 244 — the structure for this complicated design is the great rhombicuboctahedron, which consists of octagonal, hexagonal, and square faces.

   1977, Wucius Wong, Principles of Three Dimensional Design, page 70

   Zeolite A consists of truncated octahedra flanking the edges of a larger cube; they are connected along the edges by smaller cubes, and the truncated octahedra and cubes flank a great rhombicuboctahedron at the center (28).

   2005, M. Cahay, Nanoscale Devices, Materials, and Biological Systems: Fundamentals and Applications : Proceedings of the International Symposium, page 513

   Synonyms: truncated cuboctahedron