Crossword-Solution: POLYHEDRA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Polyhedra | pl. | of Polyhedron |
We have 6 clues for the answer “POLYHEDRA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cubes, pyramids, etc. | 1 answer |
| Solid figures with many plane faces | 1 answer |
| Solid shapes | 1 answer |
| solid figures, each consisting of four or more plane faces | 1 answer |
| a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces | 2 answers |
| Geometric solids. | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZCEME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with POLYHEDRA (5)
All pack tight, and mould their surfaces against each other, so that in the long run there is a wonderful average uniformity in the forms of both thoughts and actions, just as you find that cylinders crowded all become hexagonal prisms, and spheres pressed together are formed into regular polyhedra.
Among lost works were the _Catoptrica_, _On Sphere-making_, and investigations into polyhedra, including thirteen semi-regular solids, the discovery of which is attributed by Pappus to Archimedes.
Penetrate the mass in idea, and you will see it composed of numberless irregular polyhedra bounded by surfaces of weak cohesion.
Imagine such a mass subjected to pressure,--it yields and spreads out in the direction of least resistance; the little polyhedra become converted into laminae, separated from each other by surfaces of weak cohesion, and the infallible result will be a tendency to cleave at right angles to the line of pressure.
The more fundamental problem which appears first as the squaring of the circle, which becomes that of the determination of the relation of the circle to its diameter and development of the method of exhaustion, leads up to the sphere, the regular polyhedra, to conic sections and the beginnings of trigonometry.
Quotes with POLYHEDRA (1)
In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept is called the "division of a line in extreme and mean ratio" (DEMR). ... the concept occurs in two forms. The first is formulated in Proposition 11 of Book II. ... why did Euclid introduce different forms... which we can find in Books II, VI and XIII? ... Only three types of regular polygons can be faces of the Platonic solids: the equilateral triangle... t…
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).