plesiohedron
English
Etymology
plesio- + -hedron
Noun
plesiohedron (plural plesiohedra)
- (geometry) 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.
- The plesiohedra include such well-known shapes as the cube, hexagonal prism, rhombic dodecahedron, and truncated octahedron.