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A solid body of six sides or faces. Regular hexahedron, a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.

A solid in the isometric system, bounded by twenty-four equal triangular faces, four corresponding to each face of the cube.

A tetrahexahedron.

A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.

In the form of a hexahedron; having six sides or faces.

osophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. -- Platonic love, a pure, spiritual affection, subsisting between persons of opposite sex, unmixed with carnal desires, and regarding the mind only and its excellence…

s are equal regular polygons. There are five regular polyhedrons, -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron, or cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron. -- Regular sales (Stock Exchange), sales of stock deliverable on the day after the transaction. -- Regular troops, troops of a standing or permanent arm…

Pertaining to a tetrahexahedron.