hexahedron

English

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Etymology

hexa- + -hedron

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĕksəhē'drən, IPA: /hɛksəˈhiːdrən/, X-SAMPA: /hEks.@."hi.dr@n/

Noun

hexahedron (plural hexahedrons or hexahedra)

1. (geometry) A polyhedron with six faces; the regular hexahedron is more commonly called the cube and is one of the Platonic solids.

Translations

polyhedron with six faces

• Asturian: hexaedru (ast) m
• Catalan: hexaedre (ca) m, hexàedre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六面體 (cmn), 六面体 (cmn) (liùmiàntǐ)

• Dutch: hexaëder (nl)
• Esperanto: sesedro (eo)
• Finnish: heksaedri (fi)
• French: hexaèdre (fr) m

• Galician: hexaedro (gl) m
• German: Hexaeder (de) n
• Japanese: 六面体 (ja) (ろくめんたい, rokumentai)
• Portuguese: hexaedro (pt) m
• Russian: гексаэдр (ru) (geksáedr) m, шестигранник (ru) (šestigránnik) m
• Spanish: hexaedro (es) m
• Swedish: hexaeder (sv) c

Related terms

• hexahedral