polyhedral

Having multiple faces

Polyhedral means having many flat faces, like a polyhedron—a three-dimensional shape bounded by flat polygonal surfaces.

Dice are polyhedral: a polyhedral die with twenty faces.

The term appears in geometry, gaming, and molecular chemistry, where molecules may have polyhedral structures.

geometry

vertices

Corner points of shapes

  • edgesOuter limits or boundaries
  • facesFront of heads
  • cubeSix-squared-faced solid

Platonic · Archimedean · symmetry · convex · regular · irregular · truncated · stellated · dual · nets

architecture

geodesic

Shortest curved-surface path

truss · modular · parametric · biosphere · Epcot · tensegrity · paneling · cladding · structural · lightweight

crystalline

quartz

Crystalline silicon dioxide

diamond · prism · geode · mineral · sapphire · emerald · ruby · amethyst · topaz · garnet

dice

d20

Twenty-faced gaming die

  • d6Six-faced numbered cube
  • d10Ten-faced gaming die
  • tabletopHorizontal furniture surface

rpg · rolling · probability · randomness · critical · hit · gaming · percentile · advantage · disadvantage

Categories
Opposites
geometric surface type

polyhedralspherical

Globe-like in form

curved · rounded · smooth · curvilinear · ellipsoidal

structural complexity

polyhedralspherical

Globe-like in form

featureless · simple · uniform · monolithic · unstructured

Phrases
Family

polyhedron, polyhedra, polyhedrons

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