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  2. Prism (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Prism (geometry) In geometry, a prism is a polyhedron comprising an n-sided polygon base, a second base which is a translated copy (rigidly moved without rotation) of the first, and n other faces, necessarily all parallelograms, joining corresponding sides of the two bases. All cross-sections parallel to the bases are translations of the bases.

  3. Surface-area-to-volume ratio - Wikipedia

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    The surface-area-to-volume ratio or surface-to-volume ratio (denoted as SA:V, SA/V, or sa/vol) is the ratio between surface area and volume of an object or collection of objects. SA:V is an important concept in science and engineering. It is used to explain the relation between structure and function in processes occurring through the surface ...

  4. Solid geometry - Wikipedia

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    Solid geometry or stereometry is the geometry of three-dimensional Euclidean space (3D space). [1] A solid figure is the region of 3D space bounded by a two-dimensional surface; for example, a solid ball consists of a sphere and its interior . Solid geometry deals with the measurements of volumes of various solids, including pyramids, prisms ...

  5. Rectangular cuboid - Wikipedia

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    A rectangular cuboid is a convex polyhedron with six rectangle faces. These are often called "cuboids", without qualifying them as being rectangular, but a cuboid can also refer to a more general class of polyhedra, with six quadrilateral faces. [ 1] The dihedral angles of a rectangular cuboid are all right angles, and its opposite faces are ...

  6. 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.

  7. Parallelepiped - Wikipedia

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    a polyhedron with six faces ( hexahedron ), each of which is a parallelogram, and. a prism of which the base is a parallelogram. The rectangular cuboid (six rectangular faces), cube (six square faces), and the rhombohedron (six rhombus faces) are all specific cases of parallelepiped. "Parallelepiped" is now usually pronounced ...

  8. Face (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    In solid geometry, a face is a flat surface (a planar region) that forms part of the boundary of a solid object; [1] a three-dimensional solid bounded exclusively by faces is a polyhedron . In more technical treatments of the geometry of polyhedra and higher-dimensional polytopes, the term is also used to mean an element of any dimension of a ...

  9. Cuboid - Wikipedia

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    Description. A cuboid is a hexahedron with quadrilateral faces, meaning it is a polyhedron with six faces. It has eight vertices and twelve edges. Etymologically, "cuboid" means "like a cube ", in the sense of a convex solid which can be transformed into a cube by adjusting the lengths of its edges and the angles between its adjacent faces.