Meaning of rhombicuboctahedron | Babel Free

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1. An Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.
2. Either of the small rhombicuboctahedron and great rhombicuboctahedron.
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“Therefore eight triangles and eighteen (that is, twelve and six) squares join up to make an icosihexahedron, which I call a truncated cuboctahedral rhombus or a rhombicuboctahedron.”

“The gaps in a face-centered cubic packing of square sharing rhombicuboctahedra can be filled by cubes and tetrahedra (Fig. 2.4(h)).”

“So, for instance, covering up the right-hand side of our example (as in Figure 20.2(a)), we see that the rhombicuboctahedron does indeed have three types of face: two four-sided ones and one three-sided one.”

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