Definition of cuboctahedron
:one of the 13 Archimedean solids having as faces six equal squares and eight equal regular triangles and formed by cutting off the corners of a cube
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cuboctahedron
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cub·octahedron
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variants:
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cubo-octahedron
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Origin and Etymology of cuboctahedron
cub- + octahedron
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