pentahedron

English

Etymology

penta- +‎ -hedron

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛntaˈhiːdɹən/
• Rhymes: -iːdɹən

Noun

pentahedron (plural pentahedrons or pentahedra)

1. (geometry) A polyhedron with five faces.
   • 2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 106:

     Their tent was too small for them to stand, a long but low pentahedron, in shape like the triangular glass prism Saeed used to have as a child, with which he would refract sunlight into little rainbows.

Related terms

• pentahedral

Translations

solid geometric figure

• Bulgarian: петостен m (petosten)
• Catalan: pentaedre (ca) m, pentàedre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五面體／五面体 (zh) (wǔmiàntǐ)

• Czech: pětistěn m
• Esperanto: kvinedro
• Finnish: pentaedri (fi)
• French: pentaèdre (fr) m
• German: Pentaeder n, Fünfflächner m
• Hungarian: pentaéder
• Icelandic: fimmflötungur m
• Japanese: 五面体 (ごめんたい, gomentai)
• Kazakh: пентаэдр (pentaédr)
• Russian: пента́эдр (ru) m (pentáedr), пятигра́нник (ru) m (pjatigránnik)
• Spanish: pentaedro m
• Tagalog: limdayag