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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polyhedron whose vertices are identical and whose faces are regular polygons of at least two different types.
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- noun geometry Any of a class of semi-regular
convex polyhedra composed of two or more types ofregular polygon meeting in identicalvertices
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Archimedes, who first described such polyhedrons.]
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From Archimedes Greek mathematician and engineer
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