polyhedral
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of polyhedral
1805–15; < Greek polýedr ( os ) many-based ( see polyhedron) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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The paper describes a significant leap forward in assembling polyhedral nanoparticles.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
They employed them to show that you can, in a sense, hear the shapes of rooms—specifically convex, polyhedral ones.
From Scientific American • Jun. 28, 2022
Some viral capsids are simple polyhedral “spheres,” whereas others are quite complex in structure.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
With the help of an evolving rule book, seven polyhedral dice, addition skills and flexible imaginations, players determine their characters’ backgrounds, strengths, moral alignments and traits.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2022
In his ‘Mysterium Cosmographicum’ he asserts that the five kinds of regular polyhedral solids, when described round one another, regulated the distances of the planets and size of the planetary orbits.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
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