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Meanings of
polyhedron
in English
Russian
многогранник
Portuguese
poliedro
Spanish
poliedro
Catalan
poliedre
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Solid in three dimensions with flat faces.
polyhedra
polyhedrons
Russian
многогранник
Usage of
polyhedron
in English
1
Of course, there was no little white
polyhedron
surfacing with all-purpose answers.
2
An edifice is no longer an edifice; it is a
polyhedron
.
3
Galton's
polyhedron
cannot be fully rounded by the emerging Darwinian consensus:
4
The fifth and final regular
polyhedron
is the dodecahedron, with 12 pentagonal faces.
5
For the particularly brave, there's an open-air seating area on top of each
polyhedron
.
6
The librarian is not only a three-cornered person, but a many-cornered one,-
a
human
polyhedron
.
7
In this sense, Galton's
polyhedron
weds the theme of directionality with the idea of discontinuity.
8
Galton's
polyhedron
also highlights the theme of internally based directionality, not only of discontinuous change.
9
Galton's own illustration of his model of the
polyhedron
.
10
Galton first introduced his
polyhedron
to question Darwin's key claim for insensible gradation in evolutionary continuity.
11
But the early synthesists, with Fisher's exception, also left a few facets intact on Galton's
polyhedron
.
12
The
polyhedron
itself sectioned into triangular wedges; light leaked from between the wedges, red as molten lava.
13
The
polyhedron
's
spikes glowed blue and quivered.
14
Galton's conception of change does grant a role to natural selection; some force has to push the
polyhedron
.
15
A
polyhedron
consists of a number of flat faces that join along edges and at vertices (points).
16
But Galton's
polyhedron
pushes back.
Other examples for "polyhedron"
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About this term
polyhedron
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
black polyhedron
convex polyhedron
dimensional polyhedron
hulk polyhedron
human polyhedron
More collocations
Translations for
polyhedron
Russian
многогранник
полиэдр
многогранники
трёхмерный многогранник
3-политоп
Portuguese
poliedro
Spanish
poliedro
politopo tridimensional
3-politopo
Catalan
poliedre
políedre
Polyhedron
through the time