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octahedron

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octahedron: see polyhedron polyhedron (pŏl'ēhē`drən), closed solid bounded by plane faces; each face of a polyhedron is a polygon .
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There were also crocheted versions of the five Platonic solids--the cube, the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron--as well as a bricklike fractal object called Menger's sponge.
Adjoining rectangular extensions symbolizing the four corners of the world provide additional stability and two smaller further extensions rise above the main octahedron.
The primary thesis in the Mysterium cosmographicum is that God created the (Copernican) universe to express the five platonic solids (the cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron).
 
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