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Platonic solids

Platonic solids is the plural of Platonic solid.

Meaning of Platonic solid

Noun

Platonic solid (plural Platonic solids)

  1. Any of five convex polyhedra with congruent regular polygonal faces, which have a high degree of symmetry and have been studied since antiquity.
    • As the names suggest, the groups and their existence are connected to the five Platonic solids. They are in fact the rotation groups of the Platonic solids.1961, J. S. Griffith, The Theory of Transition-Metal Ions, page 41

Questions about Platonic solids

What is Platonic solids the plural of?
Platonic solids is the plural of Platonic solid.

Words near Platonic solids in the dictionary

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