pentahedron

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penta- +‎ -hedron

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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.

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