POLYHEDRON


Meaning of POLYHEDRON in English

| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|hē]drən sometimes ]ˌdrän or chiefly Brit -he] noun

( plural polyhe·dra ]_drə ; or polyhedrons )

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek polyedron, neuter of polyedros with many seats (i.e., sides), from poly- + hedra seat, side — more at sit

1. : a figure or solid formed by plane faces

2. also polyhedral body

a. : one of the angular bodies often with hornlike appendages into which the zoospores of the water net and related algae develop and within which the vegetative coenobium develops

b. : one of the refractile many-sided bodies that are present in the terminal phases of an insect polyhedrosis and are regarded as products of tissue breakdown rather than as the infective agent of the disease

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.