octahedron

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English

An octahedron

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”).

Noun

octahedron (plural octahedra or octahedrons)

1. (geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.

Related terms

• octahedral

Translations

a polyhedron with eight faces

• Catalan: octaedre (ca) m, octàedre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 八面體 (zh) (bāmiàntǐ)

• Czech: osmistěn (cs) m, oktaedr m
• Danish: oktaeder n
• Dutch: regelmatig achtvlak n
• Esperanto: okedro
• Finnish: oktaedri (fi)
• French: octaèdre (fr) m
• German: Oktaeder (de) n

• Hungarian: oktaéder (hu)
• Japanese: 八面体 (はちめんたい, hachimentai)
• Polish: ośmiościan foremny m, oktaedr m
• Portuguese: octaedro (pt) m
• Russian: окта́эдр (ru) m (oktáedr), восьмигра́нник (ru) m (vosʹmigránnik)
• Spanish: octaedro (es) m
• Swedish: oktaeder (sv) c
• Tagalog: waldayag
• Thai: รูปแปดด้าน (rûup-bpà-bpɛ̀ɛt-dâan)