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Meaning of plesiohedron | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A special kind of space-filling polyhedron, defined as the Voronoi cell of a symmetric Delone set. Three-dimensional Euclidean space can be completely filled by copies of any one of these shapes, with no overlaps.

Examples

“The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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