Antiprism

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An auxiliary prism; part of a compound prism placed with its refractive edge in a reversed position.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A polyhedron composed of two parallel copies of some particular polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles.
  • Word Usage
    "But math-crazy Lovecraft would have known that a trapezohedron is an "antiprism.""