platonic solid

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

   Synonymsregular polyhedronregular convex solidregular convex polyhedronPlatonic bodyideal solid

   Broaderpolyhedron

   Narrowerregular tetrahedroncuberegular dodecahedronregular octahedronregular icosahedron

Questions about platonic solid

What does platonic solid mean?

platonic 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 platonic solid?

Close synonyms include regular polyhedron, regular convex solid, regular convex polyhedron, Platonic body, ideal 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 platonic solid a common word?

platonic 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.