polyhedron

A closed surface consisting of four or more planar faces, pairs of which meet at edges. The faces form polygons, and the points where three or more edges meet are called vertices. The number of faces, edges, and vertices of a polyhedron are related by the Euler polyhedron formula.

A polyhedron with four faces is called a tetrahedron, a pentahedron has five faces, a hexadron six, a heptahedron seven, an octahedron eight, a dodecahedron twelve, and an icosahedron twenty. If all the faces of a polyhedron are congruent, it is called a regular solid or Platonic solid.

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