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PLATONIC BODY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

ideal solid; Platonic body; Platonic solid; regular convex polyhedron; regular convex solid; regular polyhedron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("Platonic body" is a kind of...):

polyhedron (a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Platonic body"):

regular tetrahedron (a tetrahedron with four equilateral triangular faces)

cube; regular hexahedron (a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces)

regular dodecahedron (a dodecahedron with twelve regular pentagons as faces)

regular octahedron (an octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces)

regular icosahedron (an icosahedron with twenty equilateral triangles as faces)

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