A trapezohedron is a solid whose faces are kite-shaped quadrilaterals, like a 10-sided die. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Well, turns out that a trapezohedron has nothing to do with trapezoids at all. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
But math-crazy Lovecraft would have known that a trapezohedron is an "antiprism.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
What I and apparently LaVey thought was a trapezohedron -- a polyhedron with trapezoids for sides -- is actually a frustum. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
So the Hancock Building, which so delightfully crouches on LaVey's birthplace, is not, despite what I've said in person and print for the better part of 20 years now, the world's largest trapezohedron. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
It is found massive and in trapezohedron crystals weighing from six to eighteen pounds each, and through many intervening forms down to the small fractured masses in Kinzigite and in sands. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
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