octahedron

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English

An octahedron

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktō, “eight”) + ἕδρα (hedra, “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.

Translations

a polyhedron with eight faces

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

  Mandarin: 八面體 (cmn) (bāmiàntǐ)

• Czech: osmistěn (cs) m, oktaedr (cs) m
• Esperanto: okedro (eo)
• Finnish: oktaedri (fi)
• French: octaèdre (fr) m
• German: Oktaeder (de) n

• Hungarian: oktaéder (hu)
• Japanese: 八面体 (ja) (はちめんたい, hachimentai)
• Polish: ośmiościan foremny m, oktaedr m
• Portuguese: octaedro (pt) m
• Russian: октаэдр (ru) (oktáedr) m, восьмигранник (ru) (vosʹmigránnik) m
• Spanish: octaedro (es) m
• Swedish: oktaeder (sv) c

Related terms

• octahedral