Crossword clues for hexahedron
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hexahedron \Hex`a*he"dron\, n.; pl. E. Hexahedrons, L. Hexahedra. [Hexa- + Gr. ? seat, base, fr. ? to sit: cf. F. hexa[`e]dre.] (Geom.) A solid body of six sides or faces.
Regular hexahedron, a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.
Wiktionary
n. (context geometry English) A polyhedron with six faces; the regular hexahedron is more commonly called the cube and is one of the Platonic solids.
WordNet
n. any polyhedron having six plane faces
Usage examples of "hexahedron".
The Duplication of the Hexahedron, demonstrated geometrically to all the Universities and all the Academies of Europe.
He thumbed the tiny black hexahedron and a series of three-dimensional images popped into the room.
Each radiating facet was a hexahedron tapering to a point, and all were of different thicknesses and lengths.
As the straps were undone, hexahedrons of sunfire hum-circled once around the chamber and vanished.
The Sphere would willingly have continued his lessons by indoctrinating me in the conformation of all regular Solids, Cylinders, Cones, Pyramids, Pentahedrons, Hexahedrons, Dodecahedrons, and Spheres: but I ventured to interrupt him.
So that there were einkanters with single facets, and dreikanters with three facets fierkanters, funfkanters-all the way up to nearly perfect hexahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons.
So that there were einkanters with single facets, and dreikanters with three facets— fierkanters, funfkanters—all the way up to nearly perfect hexahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons.