pentahedron
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpɛntaˈhiːdɹən/
- Rhymes: -iːdɹən
Noun
pentahedron (plural pentahedrons or pentahedra)
- (geometry) A polyhedron with five faces.
- 2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 106:
- Their tent was too small for them to stand, a long but low pentahedron, in shape like the triangular glass prism Saeed used to have as a child, with which he would refract sunlight into little rainbows.
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Translations
solid geometric figure
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