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regular polyhedron

[′reg·yə·lər ‚päl·i′hē·drən]
(mathematics)
A polyhedron all of whose faces are regular polygons, and whose polyhedral angles are congruent. Also known as platonic solid.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Polyhedron, Regular

 

a polyhedron whose faces are identical regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles at the vertices are identical. There are five convex regular polyhedrons: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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