What is "polyhedrons"

Usage examples of "polyhedrons".

The lamplight picked out shapes on the table: polyhedrons, milky white or crystal gray, a scattering of faceted jewels, odd, tubular mechanisms of gold and glass, and strangely shaped entities of metal and wood, some hard and angular, others sinuous, shaped to the hand.

He explained to Nicole, when he took a break for dinner at her insistence, that the location of the third underground hole could only be determined if he thoroughly under­stood the geometric relationships between the polyhedrons, the three plazas, and all the skyscrapers immediately opposite the principal faces of the polyhedrons in each of the nine sectors.

They discovered things they did not understand— moldering parchments overwritten in debased and unreadable bookhand, or what looked like puzzling little white polyhedrons made of milky glass, three-quarters the size of Gil's fist, their function unknown and unguessable.

She picked up another one of those little white glass polyhedrons and turned its uncommunicative shape thoughtfully in her good hand.

There was a flat rock in the center of the clearing, and Gil set one of the white glass polyhedrons on this, threw a piece of sacking over it, and hit it with a hammer.

Sometimes he seemed preoccupied with the white polyhedrons, stacking and unstacking the dozen or so Alde kept in her room, examining them for hours in fascination.

Shapes materialized: tables, benches, the gleam of metal, scattered polyhedrons, white or frosty gray, and the twinkle of faceted crystal.

Gil brought the lamp closer to the workbench, touching, first with light and then with hesitant fingers, the frosted glass of the polyhedrons that lay there in such disarray.

Gil's hands were full of bits and pieces of meaningless tools, half a dozen jewels of varying sizes she'd found in a lead box, and two or three of the new polyhedrons, frosted gray instead of milky, but just as uncommunicative.

The bluish witchlight slid like silk over the round body of a pearwood lute and winked on the angles of white and gray glass polyhedrons that were scattered across the table, the floor, and everywhere else.

Scattered across the table were vessels, boxes, chains of bubbled glass, apparatus of glass balls and gold rods, twining knots of metal tubes, sinuous pieces of meaningless sculpture, and slick, unexplainable polyhedrons, white and smoked.

It was a force which flowed only from large white polyhedrons when they were about to replicate, or were meditating on the subject.

Scattered about were boulders, each a geometric shape, squares, polyhedrons, eye-hurting things like angular Mobius strips.

Scattered about were boulders, each a geometric shape, squares, polyhedrons, eye-hurting things like angular Möbius strips.