Associations to the word «Octahedron»

Wiktionary

OCTAHEDRON, noun. (geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.

Dictionary definition

OCTAHEDRON, noun. Any polyhedron having eight plane faces.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats