The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polyhedral \Pol`y*he"dral\, Polyhedrical \Pol`y*hed"ric*al\, a. [See Polyhedron.] (Geom.) Having many sides, as a solid body.
Polyhedral angle, an angle bounded by three or more plane angles having a common vertex.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1741, from polyhedron + -al (1).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context geometry of a solid or surface English) having multiple planar faces or facets 2 (context aeronautics of a fixed-wing aircraft English) having multiple dihedral angles along the wingspan
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or resembling a polyhedron
Wikipedia
Polyhedral may refer to:
- Dihedral
- Polyhedral compound
- Polyhedral combinatorics
- Polyhedral cone
- Polyhedral cylinder
- Polyhedral convex function
- Polyhedral dice
- Polyhedral dual
- Polyhedral formula
- Polyhedral graph
- Polyhedral group
- Polyhedral model
- Polyhedral net
- Polyhedral number
- Polyhedral pyramid
- Polyhedral prism
- Polyhedral space
- Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory
- Polyhedral symbol
- Polyhedral symmetry
- Polyhedral terrain
Usage examples of "polyhedral".
A large polyhedral object, partly buried, about the size of the ship, shiny but badly scratched by the sand.
As he had said, it was large, polyhedral, shiny although dulled by uncountable scratches.
As they came close they saw marks on it which had previously been blurred into the general background of scratches and discoloration: a long jagged crack in its polyhedral casing, a concertinaed band of distortion around its center.
Lombard became: the key to all these incredible events was to be found in the polyhedral cylinder on which they had bestowed so fitting a nickname.
He assumed that the polyhedral outcroppings beside which many Tholians perched were computer system interfaces.
Formally, Perplexing Poultry was about the idea that space can be thought of as a quasicrystal, that is, as a nonrepeating tessellation of two kinds of polyhedral cell.
Suddenly the imipolex became an intricately fitted shape assembled from dovetailed polyhedral blocks.
After a few moments there appeared on it a dark network of polyhedral patterns, panels joined by silvery filaments.
It wa-s roughly cylindrical in shape, but ended in complex polyhedral structures whose functions were beyond conjecture.
He kept his eyes on the spot where it had been, trying to hold his line of sight, and after a few minutes was rewarded by the appearance of a polyhedral framework that had moving dots clinging to it.
Nar crewman clinging with all five legs to the putative top of the polyhedral frame was swinging a length of free line with a grapnel hook attached to it around and around his splayed top.
It let Jorv get within eight or nine feet, then, abruptly, its legs bunched like springs and it soared over his head and lit down next to a pile of construction materials, where, without preamble, it joined its fellows in putting up one of the polyhedral structures.
Then, from shadow, a geometry appeared: a perspective of parallel rows of lights, weak in the afternoon, and a great flat polyhedral building the size of a small stadium.
The big polyhedral square here that held most of the civic buildings was comparatively serene under the unaugmented street-lights, after the frenzy of Hotel Street and the Y.
The polyhedral surface swept outward to form a bubble fifty meters across.