Bipyramid is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bipyramid meaning
A dipyramid.
Using Bipyramid
- The main meaning on this page is: A dipyramid.
Context around Bipyramid
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bipyramid
- In this selection, "bipyramid" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, concave, gonal and pentagonal stand out and add context to how "bipyramid" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a concave bipyramid has a and a rhombic bipyramid. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bipyramid" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bipyramid
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The second type is a rhombic bipyramid. (7 words)
A regular icosahedron is a gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid and a biaugmented pentagonal antiprism in any of six orientations. (18 words)
In this nomenclature, an octahedron would be a square bipyramid, a cuboctahedron would be a triangular gyrobicupola, and an icosidodecahedron would be a pentagonal gyrobirotunda. (25 words)
An extra axial straw is added which doesn't exist in the simple polyhedron An n-gonal bipyramid or dipyramid is a polyhedron formed by joining an n-gonal pyramid and its mirror image base-to-base. (37 words)
A concave bipyramid has a concave interior polygon. : The face-transitive regular bipyramids are the dual polyhedra of the uniform prisms and will generally have isosceles triangle faces. (28 words)
In this nomenclature, an octahedron would be a square bipyramid, a cuboctahedron would be a triangular gyrobicupola, and an icosidodecahedron would be a pentagonal gyrobirotunda. (25 words)
Example sentences (5)
A concave bipyramid has a concave interior polygon. : The face-transitive regular bipyramids are the dual polyhedra of the uniform prisms and will generally have isosceles triangle faces.
An extra axial straw is added which doesn't exist in the simple polyhedron An n-gonal bipyramid or dipyramid is a polyhedron formed by joining an n-gonal pyramid and its mirror image base-to-base.
A regular icosahedron is a gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid and a biaugmented pentagonal antiprism in any of six orientations.
In this nomenclature, an octahedron would be a square bipyramid, a cuboctahedron would be a triangular gyrobicupola, and an icosidodecahedron would be a pentagonal gyrobirotunda.
The second type is a rhombic bipyramid.