English Explanatory Dictionary

plesiohedron

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-plesiohedron.wav

Word forms

plesiohedron plesiohedra

Etymology

From plesio- + -hedron.

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