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单词 Platonic solid
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Definition of Platonic solid in English:

Platonic solid

(also Platonic body)
noun
  • One of five regular solids (a tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, or icosahedron).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, is Plato's model for the whole universe.
    • If each face is an equilateral triangle, the result is a regular tetrahedron, one of the five Platonic solids.
    • The final book studies the five Platonic solids as well as the semi-regular Archimedean solids.
    • His geometrical inclinations led him to propose that these particles had regular, mathematical shapes: the polyhedra called regular Platonic solids.
    • Kepler connected the planetary orbits with the five regular polyhedra, or Platonic solids.
 
 

Definition of Platonic solid in US English:

Platonic solid

noun
  • One of five regular solids (a tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, or icosahedron).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The final book studies the five Platonic solids as well as the semi-regular Archimedean solids.
    • If each face is an equilateral triangle, the result is a regular tetrahedron, one of the five Platonic solids.
    • Kepler connected the planetary orbits with the five regular polyhedra, or Platonic solids.
    • The fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, is Plato's model for the whole universe.
    • His geometrical inclinations led him to propose that these particles had regular, mathematical shapes: the polyhedra called regular Platonic solids.
 
 
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