NOUN
- any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent
How To Use Platonic solid In A Sentence
- A pyramid is not a Platonic solid because not all the sides are the same, but by sticking an inverted pyramid on the bottom you get an octahedron, which is. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
- A dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve faces, but usually a regular dodecahedron is meant: a Platonic solid composed of twelve regular pentagonal faces, with three meeting at each vertex. Dodecahedron Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
- Only five shapes fit the bill: the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron and the dodecahedron, the quintet known as the Platonic solids since Plato wrote about them in the Timaeus. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
- These are often known as the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.
- Only five shapes fit the bill: the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron and the dodecahedron, the quintet known as the Platonic solids since Plato wrote about them in the Timaeus. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
- Kepler connected the planetary orbits with the five regular polyhedra, or Platonic solids.
- If each edge has the same length and each face is an equilateral triangle, the result is a regular tetrahedron - one of the Platonic solids.
- The regular hexahedron is part of the family of 5 platonic solids, which are the most regular polyhedra.
- The icosahedron is one of only five regular convex polyhedrons, the symmetric ‘Platonic solids’ that fascinated the ancient Greeks (the cube is another).
- These are often known as the Platonic solids: the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.
