Polyhedron (Noun)
Meaning
A solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces.
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The icosahedron is a polyhedron with 20 triangular faces and is one of the five Platonic solids.
- In geometry, a polyhedron is defined as a three-dimensional solid object bounded by flat polygonal faces.
- The regular polyhedron is often studied in mathematics due to its unique and symmetrical properties.
- Archimedes discovered the truncated polyhedron, a shape that can be formed by cutting off the corners of a regular polyhedron.
- The octahedron is a polyhedron with eight triangular faces and is commonly found in crystal structures.