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REGULAR OCTAHEDRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regular octahedron mean? 

REGULAR OCTAHEDRON (noun)
  The noun REGULAR OCTAHEDRON has 1 sense:

1. an octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as facesplay

  Familiarity information: REGULAR OCTAHEDRON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REGULAR OCTAHEDRON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("regular octahedron" is a kind of...):

ideal solid; Platonic body; Platonic 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)


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