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Hexahedron vs Hexagon - What's the difference?

hexahedron | hexagon |

As nouns the difference between hexahedron and hexagon

is that hexahedron is a polyhedron with six faces; the regular hexahedron is more commonly called the cube and is one of the Platonic solids while hexagon is a polygon with six sides and six angles.

hexahedron

English

(wikipedia hexahedron)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (geometry) A polyhedron with six faces; the regular hexahedron is more commonly called the cube and is one of the Platonic solids.

    • Related terms

    * hexahedral English nouns with irregular plurals

    hexagon

    English

    (wikipedia hexagon)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A polygon with six sides and six angles.

    • Derived terms

    * Lemoine hexagon * Tucker hexagon

    Related terms

    * hexagonal