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Cuboctahedral prism

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Cuboctahedral prism

In geometry, a cuboctahedral prism is a convex uniform 4-polytope. This 4-polytope has 16 polyhedral cells: 2 cuboctahedra connected by 8 triangular prisms, and 6 cubes.

It is one of 18 uniform polyhedral prisms created by using uniform prisms to connect pairs of parallel Platonic solids and Archimedean solids.

Alternative names

  • Cuboctahedral dyadic prism Norman W. Johnson
  • Cope (Jonathan Bowers: for cuboctahedral prism)
  • Rhombioctahedral prism
  • Rhombioctahedral hyperprism
  • References

    Cuboctahedral prism Wikipedia