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Definition of Polyhedra
1. polyhedron [n] - See also: polyhedron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyhedra
Literary usage of Polyhedra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"From this point of view an even polygon is a bounding polygon and an odd polygon
is not. 193. Odd and even polyhedra. It has been seen in § 100 that the ..."
2. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1891)
"Cauchy considers the polyhedra, not as projected on the sphere, but in solido ;
and he shows, very elegantly, that all such polyhedra must be derived from ..."
3. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1862)
"THE problem of the enumeration of polyhedra* is oue of extreme difficulty ...
A case of the general problem is that of the enumeration of the polyhedra with ..."
4. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"Archimedean polyhedra of higher kind, four. Hese, E. Marb. Sehr. 11 (Ab. 4) (1878)
12pp. ... Equiangular polyhedra from crystallographic standpoint. ..."
5. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"On partial evaporation, we found beautiful single and double crystals which
simulated the polyhedra very closely. If the material is evaporated completely ..."
6. Solid Geometry by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith (1900)
"polyhedra. 1. GENERAL AND REGULAR polyhedra. 381. Definitions. A solid whose
bounding surface consists entirely of planes is called a polyhedron; ..."
7. Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form by Samuel Colman (1912)
"On the polyhedra The Greeks, long before the Christian era, discovered that there
could be but five regular solid bodies, or polyhedra, three of these ..."
8. A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry: And Its Application to Geodesy and by John Casey (1889)
"There can be only five regular polyhedra. DEM. — Let m be the number of sides in
each face, and я the number of plane angles in each solid angle, ..."
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