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  • noun Plural form of tetrahedron.

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Examples

  • He intentionally leaves structural and non-structural elements of the ceiling's hollow tetrahedrons immediately visible.

    Alla Kazovsky: Engage Your Thoughts to 'Live-by-Design' Alla Kazovsky 2010

  • If the formal imprint of the town's postwar modular design can be found in his lacquered cubes and tetrahedrons, his Magazine series mirrors its shifting social mores.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • They're more like complex three-dimensional love tetrahedrons.

    Wasting Away Again in Margaritaville Wayne Curtis 2011

  • This autonomy is enabled, in part, by its skeletal frame — 26 extendable metal rods forming 12 tetrahedrons, hence the name — which allows the rover to “reconfigure itself into almost any shape” and adapt to terrains and situations that scientists have not foreseen.

    Accessing the Wilderness, or: A Proposal for a National Park of Abandoned Gold Mines 2008

  • I had a vision once of cities the size of mountains, complex, tetrahedrons and such.

    Plans for Foster’s Masdar Carbon Neutral City Debut | Inhabitat 2008

  • Paley's metaphor is one in a long line of attempts to explain the organic world in the language of technology, from Plato's contention that the four primal elements were constructed from solid geometrical figures - particles of fire were tetrahedrons; particles of earth, cubes - to the idea, beloved of artificial intelligence researchers, that the human brain can be understood as a sort of digital computer.

    It's alive! And it wants to evolve. William Rosen 2010

  • Paley's metaphor is one in a long line of attempts to explain the organic world in the language of technology, from Plato's contention that the four primal elements were constructed from solid geometrical figures - particles of fire were tetrahedrons; particles of earth, cubes - to the idea, beloved of artificial intelligence researchers, that the human brain can be understood as a sort of digital computer.

    It's alive! And it wants to evolve. William Rosen 2010

  • Along the beach, the gaps between the pillboxes were filled with rows of wooden obstacle posts, wood or concrete tetrahedrons and metallic gates driven into the sand facing the sea.

    The Canadians at Normandy membrain 2009

  • Along the beach, the gaps between the pillboxes were filled with rows of wooden obstacle posts, wood or concrete tetrahedrons and metallic gates driven into the sand facing the sea.

    Archive 2009-06-01 membrain 2009

  • In addition to the silicate tetrahedrons in all micas, Purple lepidolite contains the elements potassium, lithium, and aluminum.

    Mica 2008

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