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English
Etymology
From hemi- + hexakisoctahedron.
Noun
hemihexakisoctahedron (plural hemihexakisoctahedrons)
- (rare) A half of a hexakisoctahedron.
1839, W H Miller, “Octahedral System”, in A Treatise on Crystallography, Cambridge: Printed at the Pitt Press: for J. & J. J. Deighton, . London: John W. Parker, , section 66, page 34:In the hemihexakisoctahedron with inclined faces k {h k l} (fig. 23),
1841, John Joseph Griffin, “Principles of Crystallography”, in A System of Crystallography, with Its Application to Mineralogy, Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company. And Thomas Tegg, London, section XIII (An Inquiry into the variety of Forms and Combinations which occur upon the Crystals of Minerals), subsection I (The Octahedral System of Crystallisation), subsubsection 4 (The Hemihexakisoctahedron with inclined faces), § 450, page 217:The second is a hemihedral combination of which no corresponding homohedral variety has been discovered, and no hemihexakisoctahedrons have been found to correspond with the rest of the known hexakisoctahedrons, § 408.
1859, Adolf Kenngott, Tabellarischer Leitfaden der Mineralogie zum Gebrauche bei Vorlesungen und zum Selbststudium, page 62:Hemihexakisoctahedrons with parallel faces