Pentahedron
//ˌpɛntaˈhiːdɹən// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A polyhedron with five faces.
"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."
- 2 any polyhedron having five plane faces wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From penta- + -hedron.
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