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Platonic solid

n

(Mathematics) any of the five possible regular polyhedra: cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron Also called (esp formerly) Platonic body

[named after Plato (?427-?347 bc), Greek philosopher, who was the first to list them]

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Platonic solid - any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent ideal solid, Platonic body, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular polyhedron polyhedron - a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces 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