Hexahedron

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  • noun. A polyhedron, such as a cube, that has six faces.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A solid body having six faces; especially, the regular hexahedron or cube. Also hexaëdron.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A solid body of six sides or faces.
  • noun. a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A polyhedron with six faces; the regular hexahedron is more commonly called the cube and is one of the Platonic solids.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any polyhedron having six plane faces
  • Word Usage
    "Plato, the dialectician, condescended to allow to God the liberty of making five worlds; because, said he, there are five regular solids in geometry, the tetrahedron, the cube, the hexahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron."
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