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REGULAR POLYHEDRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regular polyhedron mean? 

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

1. any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruentplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


REGULAR POLYHEDRON (noun)


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Meaning:

Any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

ideal solid; Platonic body; Platonic solid; regular convex polyhedron; regular convex solid; regular polyhedron

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

polyhedron (a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regular polyhedron"):

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)


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