bitruncation
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- In regular polyhedra and tilings
- In regular 4-polytopes and honeycombs
- Self-dual {p,q,p} 4-polytope/honeycombs
- See also
- References
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thumb|A bitruncated cube is a truncated [[octahedron.]] thumb|A bitruncated cubic honeycomb - Cubic cells become orange truncated octahedra, and vertices are replaced by blue truncated octahedra.
In geometry, a bitruncation is an operation on regular polytopes. The original edges are lost completely and the original faces remain as smaller copies of themselves.
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octahedron
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John Horton Conway
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Eric W. Weisstein
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truncated dodecahedron
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