semiregular polyhedron
mathematics
Also known as: Archimedean polyhedron
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A semiregular polyhedron, also known as an Archimedean solid, is a three-dimensional object with plane faces that are all regular polygons. While not all faces are the same type of polygon, each polyhedron has identical polyhedral angles.12
In Euclidean geometry, a polyhedron is defined as a solid object bounded by a finite number of polygonal surfaces called faces. These faces meet at edges, which are line segments, and edges meet at vertices. A cube is an example of a six-sided regular polyhedron where all faces are squares.2
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