polyhedronin a sentence
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Modern architecture has moved beyond simple polyhedrons like pyramids and rectangular skyscrapers.
polyhedrons = solid shapes made of flat faces
- There are only five "regular" polyhedra.
- Analysis reveals dozens of curious items hidden among the mounds of treasure, most notably: several early home computers (an Apple Ile, a Commodore 64, an Atari 800XL, and a TRS-80 Color Computer 2), dozens of videogame controllers for a variety of game systems, and hundreds of polyhedral dice like those used in old tabletop role-playing games.† (source)
- Quentin grandly described it as an "irregular polyhedron," but it was little more than a wooden shed.† (source)
- It is like being inside an educational toy designed to teach solid geometry to three. year. olds: cubes, spheres, tetrahedrons, polyhedrons, connected with a web of cylinders and lines and helices.† (source)
- Robert, I see nothing—an orb, a ladder, a knife, a polyhedron, a scale?† (source)
- …the roof sometimes, three or four painters and a wife or husband and a couple of kids and a dog someone was keeping for someone else, and the two women remembered how Klara never sat on the sloped part of the roof, on the tar-paper surface that sloped up to the edge because she was afraid of edges, and there was a sense of sea passage and new work, and off to the north, situated beyond the rooftop, between the rooftop and the great bridge, was the polyhedral mass of towered downtown.† (source)
- An edifice is no longer an edifice; it is a polyhedron.† (source)
- Let the reader picture to himself a series of visages presenting successively all geometrical forms, from the triangle to the trapezium, from the cone to the polyhedron; all human expressions, from wrath to lewdness; all ages, from the wrinkles of the new-born babe to the wrinkles of the aged and dying; all religious phantasmagories, from Faun to Beelzebub; all animal profiles, from the maw to the beak, from the jowl to the muzzle.† (source)