Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polyhedron, such as a cube, that has six faces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A solid body having six faces; especially, the regular hexahedron or cube. Also
hexaëdron .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A solid body of six sides or faces.
- noun a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry A
polyhedron withsix faces ; theregular hexahedron is more commonly called thecube and is one of thePlatonic solids .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any polyhedron having six plane faces
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Plato, the dialectician, condescended to allow to God the liberty of making five worlds; because, said he, there are five regular solids in geometry, the tetrahedron, the cube, the hexahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron.
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After several years of moving my belongings in and out of storage, I can see the appeal of this portable, hexahedron lifestyle.
GOOD 2010
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The mesher delivers a perfect form of the forming part, based on high-precision hexahedron technology with a minimum of elements.
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To optimize the mentioned facilities a beverage bottle (or packaging in general) should be a rectangular cuboid (six rectangular faces), also called a rectangular hexahedron, or rectangular parallelepiped.
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The mesher delivers a perfect form of the forming part, based on high-precision hexahedron technology with a minimum of elements.
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(lead = ` plumb '), i.e. perpendicular bisector; zesvlak ` six-plane,' i.e. hexahedron.
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