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.

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  • noun geometry A polyhedron with six faces; the regular hexahedron is more commonly called the cube and is one of the Platonic 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

[Greek hexaedron, from neuter of hexaedros, having six sides : hexa-, hexa- + -edros, sided; see –hedron.]

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hexa- + -hedron

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Examples

  • 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.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • After several years of moving my belongings in and out of storage, I can see the appeal of this portable, hexahedron lifestyle.

    GOOD 2010

  • The mesher delivers a perfect form of the forming part, based on high-precision hexahedron technology with a minimum of elements.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2009

  • 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.

    Multichannel News: Business News 2009

  • The mesher delivers a perfect form of the forming part, based on high-precision hexahedron technology with a minimum of elements.

    Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2009

  • (lead = ` plumb '), i.e. perpendicular bisector; zesvlak ` six-plane,' i.e. hexahedron.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2 1983

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