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Polyhedron vs Dirhombicosidodecahedron - What's the difference?

polyhedron | dirhombicosidodecahedron |

As nouns the difference between polyhedron and dirhombicosidodecahedron

is that polyhedron is (geometry) a solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges while dirhombicosidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron with 40 triangles, 60 squares, and 24 pentagrams.

polyhedron

English

(wikipedia polyhedron)

Alternative forms

* polyedron

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (geometry) A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges.
  • (optics) A polyscope, or multiplying glass.

    • Hypernyms

    * abstract polyhedron * polytope

    Hyponyms

    * convex polyhedron * star polyhedron * uniform polyhedron * dual polyhedron * noble polyhedron * regular polyhedron ** Platonic solid *** cube ** Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron * quasiregular polyhedron ** Archimedean solid ** Catalan solid * semiregular polyhedron ** Archimedean solid ** Catalan solid ** prism ** antiprism ** dipyramid ** trapezohedron * dodecahedron * hexahedron * icosahedron * octahedron * tetrahedron * deltahedron * Johnson solid * zonohedron See also

    See also

    * spherical polyhedron * apeirohedron * tessellation * English nouns with irregular plurals

    dirhombicosidodecahedron

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A nonconvex uniform polyhedron with 40 triangles, 60 squares, and 24 pentagrams.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "dirhombicosidodecahedron")

    References

    * http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GreatDirhombicosidodecahedron.html Mathworld.com entry