Hexahedron
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A hexahedron is a polyhedron with six faces. A regular hexahedron, with all its faces perfect squares, is a cube.
Some hexahedra are:
- Quadrilateral faced:
- Parallelepiped - six parallelogram faces
- Rhombohedron - six rhombi faces
- Trigonal trapezohedron - six congruent rhombi faces
- Cuboid - six rectangular faces
- Cube - six square faces
- Rhombohedron - six rhombi faces
- Quadrilateral frustum - an apex-truncated square pyramid
- Parallelepiped - six parallelogram faces
- Pentagonal pyramid - one pentagon and five triangles
- Triangular dipyramid - six triangles
[edit] External links
- Polyhedra with 4-7 Faces by Steven Dutch
