noun
Meaning 1
A convex polyhedron, with four triangular and four hexagonal faces, that is an Archimedean solid and can be constructed by truncating a regular tetrahedron at each vertex by one-third the length of each adjoining edge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
Examples
- 2009, Xiaotian Lin, Miao Jin, Feng Luo, Xiangfen David Gu, Discrete Curvature Flows for Surfaces and 3-Manifolds, Frank Nielsen (editor), Emerging Trends in Visual Computing: LIX Fall Colloquium, ETVC 2008, page 69, Once the edge lengths of the tetrahedral mesh have been obtained, we can realize it in the hyperbolic space H3 First, we introduce how to construct a single truncated tetrahedron; then we explain how to glue multiple truncated tetrahedra by hyperbolic rigid motion.
- 2010, K.M. Kosuda, J. M. Bingham, K. L. Wustholz, R. P. Van Dyne, 9: Nanostructures and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Gary P. Wiederrecht (efitor), Handbook of Nanoscale Optics and Electronics, page 318, Without any further modification, the shapes of the nanoparticles fabricated by NSL are truncated tetrahedrons. However, by thermal annealing the truncated tetrahedrons are transformed into hemispheres.
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