NOUN | shape | Platonic body, regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic solid, ideal solid | any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent |
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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 solid, ideal solid | |
Narrower | cube, regular hexahedron | A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces |
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 |
Spanish | poliedro regular | |
Catalan | poliedre regular, políedre regular |
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