Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many faces, as a solid body; of or pertaining to a polyhedron. Also polyhedric, polyhedrous, polyedral, -polyedrous
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geom.) Having many sides, as a solid body.
- adjective an angle bounded by three or more plane angles having a common vertex.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geometry having multiple
planar faces orfacets - adjective aeronautics having multiple
dihedral angles along thewingspan
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or resembling a polyhedron
Etymologies
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Examples
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He's becalmed in Fife now, a long way from the rattle of polyhedral dice and the clink of pint glasses that defined our shared youth.
zornhau: Andy's "Magnetic North" zornhau 2010
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The singularity point where all universes intersected was now a polyhedral globe and characters could be standing inside, outside, or anywhere and that would be the âfloorâ of the CROSSROADS for him or her.
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Menacing and geeky at once, like a flail made of giant polyhedral dice.
Boing Boing 2009
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As the big organism pushed out a pseudopod a blobby sort of arm toward the swarm of polyhedral bits, the particles began to swirl in a lazy cloud around the big guy.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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“Anyway,” said McCoy, waving it off, “that perfect polyhedral structure convinced me to walk our dust sample over to the materials science lab.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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While I am beating my own drum, I would like to lay claim to having “invented” polyhedral dice.
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Does any number of polyhedral dice you like, including funny sizes (like 14 and 16) and the lesser sizes (like 2).
iPhone Games I’ve Started to See in My Dreams | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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Hell, just make the control objects in polyhedral shapes ludovic 6 months ago
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The classic game of beating people up with dice of various polyhedral shapes.
iPhone Games I’ve Started to See in My Dreams | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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I'll take a pass on Obi-Wan's polyhedral beard too. kevjohn on Jul 16, 2008
Two New Fan Oriented Star Wars: The Clone Wars Posters « FirstShowing.net 2008
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