ideal solid

Questions about ideal solid

What does ideal solid mean?

ideal solid means "any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent".

What is another word for ideal solid?

Close synonyms include regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, Platonic solid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ideal solid a common word?

ideal solid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.