Octahedron
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In geometry, an octahedron is a polyhedron with eight faces. The term is most commonly used to refer to the regular octahedron, a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at each vertex.
Fluorite octahedron.
Two identically formed Rubik's Snakes can approximate an octahedron.
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Polyhedron
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In geometry, a polyhedron is a three-dimensional shape with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices.
Convex polyhedron blocks on display at the Universum museum in Mexico City
Problem 14 of the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, on calculating the volume of a frustum
14-sided die from the Warring States period
Doppio ritratto, attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, depicting Luca Pacioli and a student studying a glass rhombicuboctahedron half-filled with water.