Meaning | Any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent. |
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Synonyms | regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, Platonic solid |
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Narrower | cube, regular hexahedron | A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces |
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regular dodecahedron | A dodecahedron with twelve regular pentagons as faces |
regular icosahedron | An icosahedron with twenty equilateral triangles as faces |
regular octahedron | An octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces |
regular tetrahedron | A tetrahedron with four equilateral triangular faces |
Broader | polyhedron | A solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces |
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Spanish | poliedro regular |
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Catalan | poliedre regular, políedre regular |
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