How to Use tetrahedron in a Sentence
tetrahedron
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The zooming-out step passes through a point at which all magnets look the same, whether their atoms are arranged in cubes or tetrahedra.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026
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If there’s a golden ratio for success in the fashion business, its illustration might resemble a tetrahedron.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026
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Convex shapes exist in higher-dimensional space, too, like the three-dimensional tetrahedron.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 May 2026
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Items including scissors, light bulbs, raw eggs, rolls of tape, wooden blocks, springs, foam earplugs, jacks, tetrahedrons, and shock absorbers can all be picked up without custom programming, reports Techeblog.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026
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The Tetra, from Analog Machine Works, features an unusually long tubular space frame with a pair of opposite-facing tetrahedrons in its interconnected structure.
—New Atlas, 7 July 2026
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