regular polyhedron

Questions about regular polyhedron

What does regular polyhedron mean?

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

What is another word for regular polyhedron?

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

regular polyhedron 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.