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IDEAL SOLID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ideal solid mean?
• IDEAL SOLID (noun)
The noun IDEAL SOLID has 1 sense:
1. any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent
Familiarity information: IDEAL SOLID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
ideal solid; Platonic body; Platonic solid; regular convex polyhedron; regular convex solid; regular polyhedron
Hypernyms ("ideal solid" is a kind of...):
polyhedron (a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ideal solid"):
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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