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  2. Regular polyhedron - Wikipedia

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    A regular polyhedron is a polyhedron whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags. A regular polyhedron is highly symmetrical, being all of edge-transitive, vertex-transitive and face-transitive. In classical contexts, many different equivalent definitions are used; a common one is that the faces are congruent regular polygons which are ...

  3. Polyhedron - Wikipedia

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    A toroidal polyhedron. In geometry, a polyhedron ( pl.: polyhedra or polyhedrons; from Greek πολύ (poly-) 'many' and ἕδρον (-hedron) 'base, seat') is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices . A convex polyhedron is a polyhedron that bounds a convex set.

  4. Octahedron - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, an octahedron ( pl.: octahedra or octahedrons) is a polyhedron with eight faces. An octahedron can be considered as a square bipyramid. When the edges of a square bipyramid are all equal in length, it produces a regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at each vertex.

  5. Euler characteristic - Wikipedia

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    The Euler characteristic χ was classically defined for the surfaces of polyhedra, according to the formula. where V, E, and F are respectively the numbers of v ertices (corners), e dges and f aces in the given polyhedron. Any convex polyhedron 's surface has Euler characteristic. This equation, stated by Euler in 1758, [ 2] is known as Euler's ...

  6. Pyramid (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A pyramid is a polyhedron that may be formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex. Each base edge and apex form an isosceles triangle, called a lateral face. [7] The edges connected from the polygonal base's vertices to the apex are called lateral edges. [8] Historically, the definition of a pyramid has been described by ...

  7. Platonic solid - Wikipedia

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    Platonic solid. In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges congruent), and the same number of faces meet at each vertex.

  8. List of uniform polyhedra - Wikipedia

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    40 potential uniform polyhedra with degenerate vertex figures which have overlapping edges (not counted by Coxeter ); The uniform tilings (infinite polyhedra) 11 Euclidean convex uniform tilings; 28 Euclidean nonconvex or apeirogonal uniform tilings; Infinite number of uniform tilings in hyperbolic plane. Any polygons or 4-polytopes.

  9. Rhombicosidodecahedron - Wikipedia

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    Net. In geometry, the rhombicosidodecahedron is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal nonprismatic solids constructed of two or more types of regular polygon faces . It has 20 regular triangular faces, 30 square faces, 12 regular pentagonal faces, 60 vertices, and 120 edges .