polyhedron (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *polyhedron*:
NOUN	shape	polyhedron	a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces

polyhedron > pronunciation
Sounds	paa.lihhhiy'drahn; paa.liyhhiy'drahn
Rhymes	Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn...

English > *polyhedron*: 1 sense > noun 1, shape
Meaning	A solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces.
Narrower	concave polyhedron	A polyhedron some of whose plane sections are concave polygons
	convex polyhedron	A polyhedron any plane section of which is a convex polygon
	decahedron	Any polyhedron having ten plane faces
	dodecahedron	Any polyhedron having twelve plane faces
	hexahedron	Any polyhedron having six plane faces
	icosahedron	Any polyhedron having twenty plane faces
	octahedron	Any polyhedron having eight plane faces
	pentahedron	Any polyhedron having five plane faces
	prism	A polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
	prismatoid	A polyhedron whose vertices all lie in one or the other of two parallel planes
	pyramid	A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
	regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, Platonic solid, ideal solid	Any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent
	tetrahedron	Any polyhedron having four plane faces
	trapezohedron	A polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums
Broader	solid	A three-dimensional shape
Spanish	poliedro
Catalan	poliedre, políedre
Adjectives	polyhedral	of or relating to or resembling a polyhedron

HyperDic: polyhedron