platonic solid

• Poliedro convexo cujas faces são polígonos regulares congruentes e em cujos vértices converge o mesmo número de faces. Existem exatamente cinco: tetraedro, cubo, octaedro, dodecaedro e icosaedro.

A convex polyhedron with identical regular polygon faces and the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. There are exactly five such shapes: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.

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   A convex polyhedron with identical regular polygon faces and the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. There are exactly five such solids: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.

   Sólido platônico

   • The tetrahedron is the simplest platonic solid, with four triangular faces.
   • Ancient Greek philosophers associated platonic solids with the classical elements.
   • A cube is a platonic solid because all its faces are identical squares.