truncated octahedron noun1 •A zonohedron that has 14 faces (eight regular hexagons and six squares) and 36 edges and is an Archimedean solid.The K-complex is built by taking the truncated octahedrons as 3-cells, and its faces, edges and vertex^([sic]) respectively as 2-cells, 1-cells, and 0-cells. — 1996 formstruncated octahedra · truncated octahedrons