Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A solid bounded by polygons.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In geometry, a solid bounded by plane faces.
- n. In optics, a multiplying glass or lens consisting of several plane surfaces disposed in a convex form, through each of which an object is seen; a polyscope.
- n. In bot.,in Hydrodictyon or water-net, one of the special angular cells with horn-like processes formed by the swarm-cells produced in the zygospore, within each of which a new cœnobium is developed.
Wiktionary
- n. geometry A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges.
- n. optics A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Geom.) A body or solid contained by many sides or planes.
- n. (Opt.) A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces
Etymologies
- From New Latin, from Ancient Greek πολύεδρον (poluedron), from πολύς (polus, "many") + ἕδρα (hedra, "seat"); compare French polyèdre. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One windowed side of the polyhedron opens to a teak deck leading into nature; and a skylight casts natural light on a workspace and sofa inside.”
“What fiends had devised this guilt-inducing polyhedron?”
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“A dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve faces, but usually a regular dodecahedron is meant: a Platonic solid composed of twelve regular pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex.”
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““Each one is a perfect twelve-sided polyhedron, yet less than half a micron in diameter.””
“The object in the box is like a blue polyhedron with like 80 sides to it.”
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“You can now visualize the spikey polyhedron (which Michael Trott discussed in a recent blog post) instantly using the new PolyhedronData function in Mathematica.”
“One of the problems, which turned out to be the most challenging, asked competitors to compute an inertia tensor of the spikey polyhedron, a cumulated icosahedron.”
“Sometimes I think of our ‘self’ as a extraordinarily complicated polyhedron – sometimes experiences change its shape, sometimes they shine a light on an unexplored facet, sometimes they cause it to rotate and present a fresh facet to the world.”
“Blueberry toast sammich polyhedron (uh … I need a nice cookie cutter …) with a star cutout; apple slices, grapes and physalis; a babybel cheese and Oreo cookies.”
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“The book is written as a series of Socratic dialogues involving a group of students who debate the proof of the Euler characteristic defined for the polyhedron.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘polyhedron’.
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shapes
words for shape
( randomness, visual. descriptive )triangular, conical, round, broad, congruous, hexagonal, globular, curved, oval, rectangular, parallel, crumpled and 142 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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SCIE - graph theory
antiparallel, convex polyhedron, nonadjacent, acyclic, isomorphic, vertex, graph, planar, homomorphism, factorization, adjacency, disjoint and 423 more...
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numerix
calculus, polyhedron, volume, geometry, acute, pentagon, i, pi, imaginary, catastrophe, integrate, function and 18 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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Jigsaw Codex
List? What list?
This is the list that makes up the world.cat, boustrophedon, syndetic, life, imbroglio, interlude, composition, investigation, cantankerous, him, sign, universality and 189 more...
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Regular polyhedra
This class consists of the five Platonic solids, (the only regular convex polyhedra), and the four Kepler-Poinsot (regular starry) polyhedra.
polyhedron, platonic solid, cube, octahedron, hexahedron, tetrahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, dual polyhedra, symmetry groups, schläfli symbol, face and 18 more...
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College Encounters
College makes me learn new words. Sometimes. Or else look them up and promptly forget about them.
Studying art and social & political theory. So these words are generally related to on...coeval, hegemony, reify, atavism, reticent, imbricate, itinerant, quotidian, ontology, adjudicate, interpellate, alterity and 62 more...
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Geometrics
geometric shapes
concentricity, polyhedron, spheroid, isosceles triangles, rhombus, octagonal, decagon, trapezoid, concavity, hyperbolic, heptagon, cycloid and 16 more...
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Winter 12
intermezzo, mackintosh, meretricious, fulgurant, rubescent, predella, oubliette, minaret, muezzin, leveret, volute, ortolan and 69 more...
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multi-dimensional geometric tessellat...
( _mark, personal list, patterns, randomness )
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node, polytope, polygon, polyxennon, polyyotton, polyzetton, polyexon, polypeton, polyteron, polychoron, polyhedron, cubicuboctahedron and 31 more... -
geometry
catenary, angle, ray, segment, sector, circle, chord, diameter, radius, area, perimeter, volume and 49 more...
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