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polyhedron

DEFINITIONS OF: polyhedron

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n a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces

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convex polyhedron
a polyhedron any plane section of which is a convex polygon
concave polyhedron
a polyhedron some of whose plane sections are concave polygons
prism
a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
pyramid
a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
tetrahedron
any polyhedron having four plane faces
pentahedron
any polyhedron having five plane faces
hexahedron
any polyhedron having six plane faces
octahedron
any polyhedron having eight plane faces
decahedron
any polyhedron having ten plane faces
dodecahedron
any polyhedron having twelve plane faces
icosahedron
any polyhedron having twenty plane faces
Platonic body, Platonic solid, ideal solid, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron
any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent
prismatoid
a polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes; the faces that lie in those planes are the bases of the prismatoid
trapezohedron
a polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums
parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon
a prism whose bases are parallelograms
quadrangular prism
a prism whose bases are quadrangles
triangular prism
a prism whose bases are triangles
rhombohedron
a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms)
regular tetrahedron
a tetrahedron with four equilateral triangular faces
cube, regular hexahedron
a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
regular dodecahedron
a dodecahedron with twelve regular pentagons as faces
regular octahedron
an octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces
regular icosahedron
an icosahedron with twenty equilateral triangles as faces
prismoid
a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms
Type of:
solid
a three-dimensional shape
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