In geometry, a tetrahedral prism is a convex uniform polychoron (four dimensional polytope). This polychoron has 6 polyhedral cells: 2 tetrahedra connected by 4 triangular prisms. It has 14 faces: 8 triangular and 6 square. It has 16 edges and 8 vertices.
Alternative names:
- Tetrahedral dyadic prism (Norman W. Johnson)
- Tepe (Jonathan Bowers: for tetrahedral prism)
- Tetrahedral hyperprism
- Digonal antiprismatic prism
- Digonal antiprismatic hyperprism
It is one of 18 uniform polyhedral prisms created by using uniform prisms to connect pairs of parallel Platonic solids and Archimedean solids.
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