Regular Octahedron (Noun)

Meaning

An octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces.

Classification

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.

Examples

• The regular octahedron is a polyhedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces.
• A regular octahedron has six identical vertices, each with a degree of four.
• The regular octahedron is composed of eight triangular faces, twelve edges, and six vertices.
• In chemistry, the regular octahedron is a common shape for molecules, with a central atom bonded to six surrounding atoms.
• The ancient Greeks studied the regular octahedron as one of the five Platonic solids.

Hypernyms

• Regular Convex Solid
• Platonic Body
• Regular Convex Polyhedron
• Platonic Solid
• Ideal Solid