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Antiprism
An n-sided antiprism is a polyhedron composed of two parallel copies of some particular n-sided polygon, connected by an alternating band of triangles. Antiprisms are a subclass of the prismatoids. Antiprisms are similar to prisms except the bases are twisted relative to each other: the vertices are symmetrically staggered.
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