hexahedron

English

Etymology

From hexa- +‎ -hedron. Piecewise doublet of sexahedron.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĕksəhē'drən, IPA^(key): /hɛksəˈhiːdɹən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

hexahedron (plural hexahedra or hexahedrons)

1. (geometry) A polyhedron with six faces.

Usage notes

• The regular hexahedron is the cube, and is one of the Platonic solids.

Synonyms

• sexahedron (rare)

Derived terms

• octakishexahedron
• tetrahemihexahedron
• tetrahexahedron
• tetrakishexahedron
• tetrakis hexahedron

Related terms

• hexahedral

Translations

polyhedron with six faces

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

  Mandarin: 六面體 / 六面体 (zh) (liùmiàntǐ)

• Czech: šestistěn (cs) m, hexaedr (cs) m
• Dutch: hexaëder (nl) m, zesvlak (nl) n
• Esperanto: sesedro
• Faroese: seksflatingur m
• Finnish: heksaedri (fi), kuusitahokas
• French: hexaèdre (fr) m
• Galician: hexaedro (gl) m
• German: Hexaeder (de) n or m, Sechsflächner (de) m, 6-Flächner m
• Hungarian: hexaéder (hu)
• Icelandic: sexflötungur m
• Japanese: 六面体 (ja) (ろくめんたい, rokumentai)
• Korean: 육면체 (yungmyeonche)
• Macedonian: хексаедар m (heksaedar)
• Polish: sześciościan (pl) m
• Portuguese: hexaedro (pt) m
• Russian: гекса́эдр (ru) m (geksáedr), шестигра́нник (ru) m (šestigránnik)
• Spanish: hexaedro (es) m
• Swedish: hexaeder (sv) c
• Tagalog: nimdayag
• Ukrainian: шестигра́нник (uk) m (šestyhránnyk)