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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PLATONIC SOLID

Named after Plato1, who was the first to list them.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PLATONIC SOLID

Platonic solid play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLATONIC SOLID

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Platonic solid is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PLATONIC SOLID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Platonic solid

In Euclidean geometry, a Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron with congruent faces of regular polygons and the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. Five solids meet those criteria, and each is named after its number of faces. Geometers have studied the mathematical beauty and symmetry of the Platonic solids for thousands of years. They are named for the ancient Greek philosopher Plato who theorized in his dialogue, the Timaeus, that the classical elements were made of these regular solids.

Definition of Platonic solid in the English dictionary

The definition of Platonic solid in the dictionary is any of the five possible regular polyhedra: cube, tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron Also called : Platonic body.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLATONIC SOLID

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WORDS THAT END LIKE PLATONIC SOLID

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Synonyms and antonyms of Platonic solid in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Platonic solid» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLATONIC SOLID

Find out the translation of Platonic solid to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Platonic solid from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Platonic solid» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

柏拉图固体
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sólido platónico
570 millions of speakers

English

Platonic solid
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ठोस प्लेटो
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

أفلاطوني الصلبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

платонова тела
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sólidos platônicos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্ল্যাটনিক কঠিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

solide platonique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pepejal Platonik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

platonischen Körper
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

固体プラトニック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고체 플라톤
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Solid Platonik
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

thuần khiết rắn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிளாட்டோனிக் திட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्लॅटोनिक घन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Platonik katı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

solido platonico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

platońska solidny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Платонова тіла
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

platonic solid
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

πλατωνική στερεών
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Platoniese vaste
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Platonic fast
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

platonisk solid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Platonic solid

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLATONIC SOLID»

The term «Platonic solid» is used very little and occupies the 151.178 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLATONIC SOLID»

Discover the use of Platonic solid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Platonic solid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Autodesk Maya 2011: A Comprehensive guide
Creating a Platonic Solid Main menubar: Create > Polygon Primitives > Platonic Solids A platonic solid is a regular polyhedron with every face being a regular polygon of the same size and shape, as shown in Figure 4-12. To create a platonic ...
Sham Tickoo
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Design Paradigms: A Sourcebook for Creative Visualization
Similarly a sphere can be fit within each solid in such a way that the sphere would touch each face of the platonic solid. The simplest of these shapes is the tetrahedron, a four-sided solid bounded by equilateral triangles on all sides.
Warren K. Wake, 2000
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Content-Area Vocabulary Strategies for Mathematics
A solid figure is a platonic solid if 1. all vertices are exactly alike. 2. all faces are regular polygons and exactly alike. How many Platonic solids are there? It turns out there are five of them. Since all the vertices and all the faces have to be exactly ...
Walch Publishing, 2002
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The Mathematica GuideBook for Graphics
Then, we define a function make Edges [typOfSolid , actualSolid] that returns a list of the edges of the Platonic solid actualSolid. After choosing an initial Platonic solid, we randomly choose a Platonic solid according to the given probabilities.
Michael Trott (Ph. D.), 2004
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Platonic Solid
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Portal: Mathematics/Featured article template In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron that is regular, in the sense of a regular polygon.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Transformation Geometry: An Introduction to Symmetry
Each of the Platonic solids can be inscribed in a sphere. Any vertex V of a Platonic solid can be brought to different vertex V by a symmetry of the sphere that is a rotation about the axis of the sphere that is perpendicular to a plane containing V, ...
George E. Martin, 1982
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Platonic Solid: Geometry, Convex Polytope, Regular Polygon, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron that is regular, in the sense of a regular polygon.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
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The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: An Edited ...
They're called the Platonic solids [Fig. 6-15]. A Platonic solid has certain characteristics by definition. First of all, its faces are all the same size. For instance, a cube, the most well-known of the Platonic solids, has a square on every face, so all ...
Drunvalo Melchizedek, 2000
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The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 ...
A Platonic solid is a convex multifaceted 3-D object whose faces are all identical polygons, with sides of equal length and angles of equal degrees. A Platonic solid also has the same number of faces meeting at every vertex. The best-known  ...
Clifford A. Pickover, 2009
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Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics
A Platonic solid is a regular 3-dimensional polyhedron. The 1-skeleton of a polyhedron is the graph that has as its vertices and edges the vertices and edges , respectively, of that polyhedron. The tetrahedral graph is the 1-skeleton of the ...
Kenneth H. Rosen, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLATONIC SOLID»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Platonic solid is used in the context of the following news items.
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New Soft Goods Collection Inspired by Ancient Sacred Geometry
A Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron. Constructed of congruent regular polygonal faces with the same number of faces meeting at ... «SYS-CON Media, Jul 15»
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Hemp And CBD Bills Die As Missouri General Assembly Melts Down …
THC, and/or THCA are the Volume Knob, and Tuning Knob to the Radio. Edestin is the Batteries. CBD is not a platonic solid, and is formed from ... «The Weed Blog, May 15»
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Goethe University Chemists Synthesise a Platonic Solid Featuring …
The Platonic solid, which was published in Angewandte Chemie, is not just aesthetically pleasing, it also opens up new perspectives for the ... «AZoNano.com, Mar 15»
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Public Release: 18-Mar-2015 30 years after C60: Fullerene …
IMAGE: The Platonic solid, which was published in Angewandte Chemie, is not just aesthetically pleasing, it also opens up new perspectives ... «EurekAlert, Mar 15»
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The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book
The resulting manipulations are often so varied it can be hard to discern from which Platonic solid they originated. This is Jamnitzer's point: to ... «Hyperallergic, Feb 15»
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Long Live Retail: Fashion Startups Finally Learned Why Physical …
The Birchbox store in downtown Manhattan is the platonic solid of their web experience. (Photo: Birchbox). Bonobos began as an ecommerce ... «New York Observer, Jan 15»
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Stanford lecturer and artist leads 'drawing orchestra' through …
The icosahedron is the largest Platonic solid, whose 20 faces are all equilateral triangles. But when assembled by binding together 20 perfect ... «Stanford University News, Apr 14»
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Adam David Brown, visual artist, and his creative space
He says it's a Platonic solid, with many of the playing cards depicting kings and queens. “It's about hierarchy passed through time.” MORE. «Toronto Star, Mar 14»
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These new 3D shapes could help us combat herpes and fight …
Every time you play Yahtzee, for example, you're rolling one kind of Platonic solid, a cube. A second class of shapes that fall in this category, ... «The Week Magazine, Feb 14»
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zaha hadid-designed dolls' house sells for £14000
Nice restraint and confrontation with the platonic solid. ZHA should use more straight angles in their work, im(h)o. Can imagine this kind of ... «Designboom, Nov 13»

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