polyhedron

Noun

Meaning

A body or solid contained by many sides or planes.

A polyscope, or multiplying glass.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cube polygon prism dodecahedron hexagon octagon figure triangle concave tetrahedron convex polyhedral icosahedral parallelepiped Platonic solid

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Antonyms

circle trapezium

Hypernyms

solid

Hyponyms

prism dodecahedron pyramid tetrahedron icosahedron Platonic solid

Phrases with the word

ideal polyhedron Johnson polyhedron spherical polyhedron polyhedron having ten faces polyhedron of ten faces polyhedron with ten faces

Derivatives

polyhedrons polyhedra

Examples

A complex polyhedron is mathematically more closely related to configurations than to real polyhedra. Source: Internet

A global polyhedron of permanently operating GPS stations under the auspices of the IERS is used to define a single global, geocentric reference frame which serves as the "zero order" global reference to which national measurements are attached. Source: Internet

Any geometric polyhedron is then said to be a "realization" in real space of the abstract poset. Source: Internet

An extra axial straw is added which doesn't exist in the simple polyhedron An n-gonal bipyramid or dipyramid is a polyhedron formed by joining an n-gonal pyramid and its mirror image base-to-base. Source: Internet

Analytically, such a convex polyhedron is expressed as the solution set for a system of linear inequalities. Source: Internet

All of them can be seen to be related to a regular or uniform polyhedron by gyration, diminishment, or dissection. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

polyhedrin polyhedroid polyhedrometry polyhedron having ten faces polyhedron of ten faces polyhedron with ten faces