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Meanings of polyhedrons in English

Russian
многогранник
Portuguese
poliedro
Spanish
poliedro
Catalan
poliedre
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Solid in three dimensions with flat faces.

        многогранник
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        Examples for "polyhedron"
        Examples for "polyhedron"
        1
        Of course, there was no little white polyhedron surfacing with all-purpose answers.
        Swan Song
        2
        An edifice is no longer an edifice; it is a polyhedron.
        Notre-Dame de Paris
        3
        Galton's polyhedron cannot be fully rounded by the emerging Darwinian consensus:
        The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
        4
        The fifth and final regular polyhedron is the dodecahedron, with 12 pentagonal faces.
        The Irish Times
        5
        For the particularly brave, there's an open-air seating area on top of each polyhedron.
        News.com.au
        1
        By joining identical polygons together, we can form solid bodies called regular polyhedra.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Lethal doses of cell- and host-derived polyhedra were not significantly different.
        Pubmed
        3
        Morphological analysis of polyhedra derived from cell culture showed greater variability in size relative to host-derived polyhedra.
        Pubmed
        4
        After a moment they started to lose facial definition as they became a series of complex irregular polyhedra.
        One of our Thursdays is missing
        5
        Going beyond planar designs, the book contains numerous nets of polyhedra and templates for applying Escheresque designs to them.
        The Daily Telegraph
        Usage of polyhedrons in English
        1
        The synthesis strategy involves one-step route for doping foreign metallic element and forming porous cobalt phosphide polyhedrons.
        Pubmed
        2
        Gray, black, dazzling marble white, arranged in pyramids and many-sided polyhedrons, some as translucent as frosted glass.
        Blood music
        3
        The polyhedrons, for example.
        The Complete Rama Omnibus
        4
        Well, Mr. Cornell, you may know that in the field of solid geometry there are only five possible regular polyhedrons.
        Highways in Hiding
        5
        On the regular polyhedrons:
        A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
        6
        The heads of several kinds of nails which are portions of spheres, or polyhedrons, are also formed by these means.
        On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
        7
        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...
        8
        The artist and neurobiologist's Kickstarter offers the opportunity to design your own bookshelf based on the clever Voronoi pattern method of subdividing space into polyhedrons.
        Wired
        9
        "And another thing," Richard growled to himself, "what's the purpose of all these damn polyhedrons?
        The Complete Rama Omnibus