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Meanings of Platonic solid in English

Russian
платоново тело
Portuguese
sólido platónico
Spanish
poliedro regular convexo
Catalan
sòlid platònic
Wikidata

Convex regular polyhedra with the same number of faces at each vertex.

платоново тело
Portuguese
sólido platônico
Catalan
poliedre regular

Any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent.

sólido platônico
Synonyms
Examples for "regular polyhedron"
Examples for "regular polyhedron"
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The fifth and final regular polyhedron is the dodecahedron, with 12 pentagonal faces.
The Irish Times
2
Well, Mr. Cornell, you may know that in the field of solid geometry there are only five possible regular polyhedrons.
Highways in Hiding
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On the regular polyhedrons:
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
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And what shall we say of the infinite variety of those exquisite and regular polyhedrons in which the world of crystals is so rich?
The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars / Being the Posthumous Pa...
Usage of Platonic solid in English
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Five Platonic solids: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron.
John Winchester’s Journal
2
Are not the five platonic solids, of which Plato had so much to say, just various crystalline forms?
The mandala of sherlock holmes: the missing years
3
It was a perfect evocation of the ghostly quality of "surgical" Cold War combat: We fight amongst Platonic solids!
Wired
4
The highlight of the 13th and final book of Euclid's Elements was the proof that there are just five " Platonic solids".
The Irish Times
5
Suppose, for example, that we attempt to deal decoratively which such simple figures as the three lowest Platonic solids-thetetrahedron, the hexahedron, and the octahedron.
Architecture and Democracy