polyhedron
/pol-ee-hee-druhn/US // ˌpɒl iˈhi drən //UK // (ˌpɒlɪˈhiːdrən) //
多面体,多角形,多角体
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural pol·y·he·drons, pol·y·he·dra [pol-ee-hee-druh]. /ˌpɒl iˈhi drə/.
- : a solid figure having many faces.
Examples
If we make a polyhedron out of clay, mark the edges with a Sharpie, and roll it into a ball, the faces and edges become curved but their number doesn’t change.
Synacral, sin-ak′ral, adj. having a common vertex, as faces of a polyhedron.
Crime, he admitted, is a very complex phenomenon; it is a sort of polyhedron, of which every one sees a special side.
"Polyhedron" is from the Greek polys (many) and hedra (seat).
The points thus obtained are evidently the vertices of a polyhedron with plane faces.
In the first place, each of these figures may be conceived as an orthogonal projection of a closed plane-faced polyhedron.
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