Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 4 compound words that contain polyhedra. The most common are listed below. Open polyhedra in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- abstract polyhedraplural of abstract polyhedron: A type of abstract polytope where the connections between its points correspond to the faces, edges, and vertices of a polyhedron.
- dual polyhedraplural of dual polyhedron: Either of a pair of polyhedra in which the faces of one are equivalent to the vertices of the other.
- regular polyhedraplural of regular polyhedron: A polyhedron whose faces are congruent regular polygons.
- spherical polyhedraplural of spherical polyhedron: A tessellation of a sphere in which the surface is entirely made of spherical polygons.
- star polyhedraplural of star polyhedron: A polyhedron that is partially nonconvex.
- toroidal polyhedraplural of toroidal polyhedron: A polyhedron that has a topological genus of one or more.
- Kepler-Poinsot polyhedraplural of Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron: Any of several nonconvex regular polyhedra with regular pentagrammatic faces or vertex figures and which can be obtained by stellation of the dodecahedron or icosahedron.
- quasiregular polyhedraplural of quasiregular polyhedron: A uniform polyhedron with two types of faces that alternate around each vertex.
- semiregular polyhedraplural of semiregular polyhedron: A polyhedron whose faces are all regular polygons, two or more having a different amount of sides, and each vertex having the same arrangement of polygons.
- ideal polyhedraplural of ideal polyhedron: In hyperbolic geometry, a polyhedron whose vertices are all ideal; i.e. points at infinity, rather than real. Its surface is topologically equivalent to a punctured sphere.
- Johnson polyhedraplural of Johnson polyhedron: Any of a class of convex polyhedra that have regular faces but are not uniform (that is, not Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, prisms, or antiprisms).
- noble polyhedraplural of noble polyhedron: A polyhedron that is isohedral and isogonal.
- Schönhardt polyhedraplural of Schönhardt polyhedron: The simplest non-convex polyhedron that cannot be triangulated into tetrahedra without adding new vertices.
Compound words 4
- micropolyhedraplural of micropolyhedron: A very small polyhedron
- nanopolyhedraplural of nanopolyhedron: A nanoscale polyhedron
- polyhedranesplural of polyhedrane: any polycyclic hydrocarbon, of general formula (CH)ₙ, having a skeleton that corresponds to a polyhedron
- subpolyhedraplural of subpolyhedron: A polyhedron forming part of another polyhedron.