English Explanatory Dictionary

Hill tetrahedron

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a certain family of space-filling tetrahedra that are scissor-congruent to a cube.

Word forms

Hill tetrahedron Hill tetrahedra

Etymology

Discovered in 1896 by M. J. M. Hill, professor of mathematics at the University College London.

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