octahedral

[ ok-tuh-hee-druhl ]

adjective

1. having the form of an octahedron.

octahedral

/ ˌɒktəˈhiːdrəl /

adjective

1. having eight plane surfaces
2. shaped like an octahedron

Word History and Origins

Origin of octahedral¹

First recorded in 1750–60; octahedr(on) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Barium titanate belongs to the perovskite group of materials, where a titanium ion resides within an oxygen octahedral cage.

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"Synthetic anion binding is much more challenging because anions can be all kinds of shapes -- spherical, octahedral, even tetrahedral," Gong says.

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"Imagining each of these individual molecular LEGOs will emit at different wavelengths, one can in principle design a semiconductor material that would emit an arbitrary color by selecting different molecular octahedral LEGOs," he explained.

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"One can imagine that each of these octahedral LEGOs could carry some type of 'genetic' information, just like DNA base pairs carry our genetic information," Yang said.

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"Intuitively, making these semiconductors is like stacking octahedral-shaped molecular 'LEGOs' into larger octahedral single crystals," said Yang.

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