octahedron

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὀκτάεδρον (oktáedron). By surface analysis, octa- +‎ -hedron.

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octahedron (plural octahedra or octahedrons)

  1. (geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.

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