Definition:Cuboctahedron
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Definition
Definition 1
A cuboctahedron is a polyhedron formed by truncating a cube so that the vertices lie at the midpoints of the edges of the cube.
Definition 2
A cuboctahedron is a polyhedron formed by truncating an octahedron so that the vertices lie at the midpoints of the edges of the octahedron.
The cuboctahedron is one of the Archimedean polyhedra.
It has $14$ faces, $12$ vertices and $24$ edges.
Also see
- Results about cuboctahedra can be found here.
Linguistic Note
The plural of cuboctahedron is cuboctahedra.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cuboctahedron (plural cuboctahedra)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cuboctahedron (plural cuboctahedra)