sexahedron

plural sexahedrons

1. rareSynonym of hexahedron.

   For the pièce de résistance of the exhibit, Opall has cast a massive sexahedron.

   1991 July, Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, “Holos at an Exhibition”, in Amazing Stories, volume LXVI, number 3 (whole 560), TSR, Inc., →ISSN, page 95

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   George’s sponsor is Lee McFarland, founder of the modernistic institution that bears his name, and the applicant’s principal recommendation was his special affinity for small dotted sexahedrons which will probably be mistaken by most of the members for some kind of pornography.

   1973, Pacific Oil World, page 10, column 1

   The Ames room is a chamber that, when viewed from a small peephole, looks like a perfectly normal room. In fact, it is carpentered as an irregular sexahedron with no visible right angles.

   1986, James E. Cutting, Perception with an Eye for Motion, Bradford Books, →ISBN, page 56

   The rock shows a natural change in coloration while the sexahedrons, of an alloy of steel blending into bronze, evoke the flowing colors of a sunset skyline.

   1988 September 15, Wing Liu, “Visual surprise in Science Bldg.”, in The Guardsman, volume 106, number 3, page 4, column 1

   Synonyms: hexahedron