hexahedron

English

Etymology

hexa- +‎ -hedron

Pronunciation

enPR: hĕksəhē'drən, IPA^(key): /hɛksəˈhiːdɹən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

hexahedron (plural hexahedrons or hexahedra)

(geometry) A polyhedron with six faces. The regular hexahedron is the cube, and is one of the Platonic solids.

Synonyms

sexahedron (rare)

Derived terms

tetrakis hexahedron

Related terms

hexahedral

Translations

polyhedron with six faces

Asturian: hexaedru m
Catalan: hexaedre (ca) m, hexàedre (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 六面體／六面体 (zh) (liùmiàntǐ)
Czech: šestistěn (cs) m, hexaedr (cs) m
Dutch: hexaëder (nl) m, zesvlak (nl) n
Esperanto: sesedro
Faroese: seksflatingur m
Finnish: heksaedri (fi)
French: hexaèdre (fr) m
Galician: hexaedro (gl) m
German: Hexaeder (de) n, Sechsflächner (de) m
Hungarian: hexaéder (hu)
Icelandic: sexflötungur m
Japanese: 六面体 (ja) (ろくめんたい, rokumentai)
Korean: 육면체 (yungmyeonche)
Polish: sześciościan (pl) m
Portuguese: hexaedro (pt) m
Russian: гекса́эдр (ru) m (geksáedr), шестигра́нник (ru) m (šestigránnik)
Spanish: hexaedro (es) m
Swedish: hexaeder (sv) c
Tagalog: nimdayag
Ukrainian: шестигра́нник (uk) m (šestyhránnyk)

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