polyhedron

English

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Alternative forms

• polyedron

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek πολύεδρον (poluedron), from πολύς (polus, “many”) + ἕδρα (hedra, “seat”); compare French polyèdre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pŏlēhē'drən, IPA: /pɒliˈhiːdrən/, X-SAMPA: /pQli"hi:dr@n/

Noun

polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons)

1. (geometry) A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges.
2. (optics) A polyscope, or multiplying glass.

Translations

geometry: solid figure

• Bulgarian: полиедър m, многостен m
• Catalan: poliedre (ca) m, políedre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多面體 (cmn), 多面体 (cmn) (duōmiàntǐ)

• Czech: mnohostěn (cs) m
• Esperanto: pluredro (eo)
• Finnish: monitahokas (fi), polyedri (fi)
• French: polyèdre (fr) m
• German: Polyeder (de) n, Vielflächner (de) m
• Greek: πολύεδρον (el) (polýedron) n

• Hungarian: poliéder (hu)
• Ido: poliedro
• Italian: poliedro (it)
• Japanese: 多面体 (ja) (ためんたい, tamentai)
• Polish: wielościan (pl) m
• Romanian: poliedru (ro) n, poliedre (ro) n pl
• Russian: многогранник (ru) (mnogogránnik) m, полиэдр (ru) (poliédr) m
• Slovak: mnohosten m
• Spanish: poliedro (es)
• Swedish: polyeder (sv) c

polyscope — see polyscope

Hypernyms

• abstract polyhedron
• polytope

Hyponyms

Hyponyms

convex polyhedron star polyhedron uniform polyhedron dual polyhedron noble polyhedron regular polyhedron Platonic solid cube Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron

quasiregular polyhedron Archimedean solid Catalan solid semiregular polyhedron Archimedean solid Catalan solid prism antiprism dipyramid trapezohedron

dodecahedron hexahedron icosahedron octahedron tetrahedron deltahedron Johnson solid zonohedron

See also Wikisaurus:polyhedron

See also

• spherical polyhedron
• apeirohedron
• tessellation
• Schläfli symbol