Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A solid bounded by polygons.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, a solid bounded by plane faces.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A body or solid contained by many sides or planes.
- noun (Opt.) A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry A
solid figure with many flatfaces and straight edges. - noun optics A
polyscope , or multiplying glass.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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What fiends had devised this guilt-inducing polyhedron?
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The object in the box is like a blue polyhedron with like 80 sides to it.
Tron Legacy Viral Back in Action - Flynn Lives Zero Hour Site « FirstShowing.net 2010
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“Each one is a perfect twelve-sided polyhedron, yet less than half a micron in diameter.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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“Each one is a perfect twelve-sided polyhedron, yet less than half a micron in diameter.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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What fiends had devised this guilt-inducing polyhedron?
Jonathan Black: Confessions of a Failed Parent Jonathan Black 2010
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“Each one is a perfect twelve-sided polyhedron, yet less than half a micron in diameter.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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What fiends had devised this guilt-inducing polyhedron?
Jonathan Black: Confessions of a Failed Parent Jonathan Black 2010
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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.
Dodecahedron Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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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.
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