polyhedron

English

Alternative forms

polyedron

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek πολύεδρον (polúedron), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”); compare French polyèdre.

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: pŏlēhē'drən, IPA^(key): /pɒliˈhiːdɹən/

Noun

polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons)

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

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

See also Thesaurus:polyhedron

Translations

geometry: solid figure

Bulgarian: полиедър (bg) m (poliedǎr), многостен (bg) m (mnogosten)
Catalan: poliedre (ca) m, políedre (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 多面體 (zh), 多面体 (zh) (duōmiàntǐ)
Crimean Tatar: çoqhanelik
Czech: mnohostěn m
Danish: polyeder n
Esperanto: pluredro
Finnish: monitahokas (fi), polyedri (fi), tahokas (fi)
French: polyèdre (fr) m
German: Polyeder (de) n, Vielflach (de) n, Vielflächner (de) m
Greek: πολύεδρον n (polýedron)
Hungarian: poliéder (hu)
Ido: poliedro (io)
Italian: poliedro (it)

Japanese: 多面体 (ja) (ためんたい, tamentai)
Latvian: daudzstūris
Maori: matarau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: polyeder n

Nynorsk: polyeder n
Polish: wielościan (pl) m
Portuguese: poliedro (pt) m
Romanian: poliedru (ro) n, poliedre n pl
Russian: многогра́нник (ru) m (mnogogránnik), полиэ́др (ru) m (poliédr)
Slovak: mnohosten m
Spanish: poliedro (es)
Swedish: polyeder (sv) c
Tagalog: damdayag

polyscope — see polyscope

See also

apeirohedron
Schläfli symbol
spherical polyhedron
subpolyhedron
tessellation

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