polyhedron

English

Alternative forms

• polyedron

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

polyhedron (plural polyhedra or polyhedrons)

1. (geometry) A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges.
2. (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
  • Archimedean solid
  • Catalan solid
  • prism
  • antiprism
  • dipyramid
  • trapezohedron

• dodecahedron
• hexahedron
• icosahedron
• octahedron
• tetrahedron
• deltahedron
• Johnson solid
• zonohedron

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／多面体 (zh) (duōmiàntǐ), 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)
• Icelandic: margflötungur m
• Ido: poliedro (io)
• Italian: poliedro (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 多面体 (ja) (ためんたい, tamentai)
• Korean: 다면체 (damyeonche)
• 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