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REGULAR HEXAHEDRON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

Synonyms:

cube; regular hexahedron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("regular hexahedron" is a kind of...):

ideal solid; Platonic body; Platonic solid; regular convex polyhedron; regular convex solid; regular polyhedron (any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regular hexahedron"):

tesseract (the four-dimensional analogue of a cube)

quadrate (a cubelike object)

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