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    In geometry, a polyhedron (pl.: polyhedra or polyhedrons; from Greek πολύ (poly-)  'many' and ἕδρον (-hedron)  'base, seat') is a three-dimensional figure...
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    In geometry, every polyhedron is associated with a second dual structure, where the vertices of one correspond to the faces of the other, and the edges...
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  • A regular polyhedron is a polyhedron whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags. A regular polyhedron is highly symmetrical, being all of edge-transitive...
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  • Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical...
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    where two lines meet to form an angle and the corners of polygons and polyhedron are vertices. The vertex of an angle is the point where two rays begin...
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    more specifically in polyhedral combinatorics, a Goldberg polyhedron is a convex polyhedron made from hexagons and pentagons. They were first described...
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    three-dimensional solid object bounded by six congruent square faces, a type of polyhedron. It has twelve congruent edges and eight vertices. It is a type of parallelepiped...
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  • space is called an n-dimensional polyhedron. Polyhedron may also refer to: Polyhedron (magazine), formerly Polyhedron Newszine, a former magazine targeting...
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    A geodesic polyhedron is a convex polyhedron made from triangles. They usually have icosahedral symmetry, such that they have 6 triangles at a vertex...
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    truncation. The resulting polyhedron has 4 equilateral triangles and 4 regular hexagons, 18 edges, and 12 vertices. A Goldberg polyhedron is one whose faces...
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    In geometry, a uniform polyhedron has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive—there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other. It follows...
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    In geometry, a toroidal polyhedron is a polyhedron which is also a toroid (a g-holed torus), having a topological genus (g) of 1 or greater. Notable examples...
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  • numbers of vertices (corners), edges and faces in the given polyhedron. Any convex polyhedron's surface has Euler characteristic   χ = V − E + F = 2   ....
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  • Thumbnail for Schönhardt polyhedron
    In geometry, a Schönhardt polyhedron is a polyhedron with the same combinatorial structure as a regular octahedron, but with dihedral angles that are non-convex...
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    Szilassi polyhedron is a nonconvex polyhedron, topologically a torus, with seven hexagonal faces. The 14 vertices and 21 edges of the Szilassi polyhedron form...
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    edges; this square has 4 edges. Every edge is shared by two faces in a polyhedron, like this cube. Every edge is shared by three or more faces in a 4-polytope...
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    constructing another polyhedron. Examples are some of the Johnson solids, the truncated right triangular prism, and Schönhardt polyhedron. A triangular prism...
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  • In geometry, a composite polyhedron is a convex polyhedron that produces other polyhedrons when sliced by a plane. Examples can be found in Johnson solids...
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    In geometry, a spherical polyhedron or spherical tiling is a tiling of the sphere in which the surface is divided or partitioned by great arcs into bounded...
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    In geometry, a net of a polyhedron is an arrangement of non-overlapping edge-joined polygons in the plane which can be folded (along edges) to become the...
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  • solid object; a three-dimensional solid bounded exclusively by faces is a polyhedron. A face can be finite like a polygon or circle, or infinite like a half-plane...
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  • An n-dimensional polyhedron is a geometric object that generalizes the 3-dimensional polyhedron to an n-dimensional space. It is defined as a set of points...
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    elongated square gyrobicupola or pseudorhombicuboctahedron is an extra polyhedron with regular faces and congruent vertices, but it is not generally counted...
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  • uniform star polyhedron with Wythoff symbol of the form 3 | p q or ⁠3/2⁠ | p q are ditrigonal, at least if p and q are not 2. Each polyhedron includes two...
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    In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is a polyhedron that can be constructed by truncating all of the regular icosahedron's vertices. Intuitively, it...
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    or intersphere of a convex polyhedron is a sphere which is tangent to every edge of the polyhedron. Not every polyhedron has a midsphere, but the uniform...
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    In geometry, a flexible polyhedron is a polyhedral surface without any boundary edges, whose shape can be continuously changed while keeping the shapes...
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    In three-dimensional hyperbolic geometry, an ideal polyhedron is a convex polyhedron all of whose vertices are ideal points, points "at infinity" rather...
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    In geometry, a prism is a polyhedron comprising an n-sided polygon base, a second base which is a translated copy (rigidly moved without rotation) of the...
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    stellation is the process of extending a polygon in two dimensions, a polyhedron in three dimensions, or, in general, a polytope in n dimensions to form...
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