what is a polyhedron?
A portable DVD player is in the shape of a rectangular prism. A soccer ball is in the shape of a truncated icosahedron. These shapes are all examples of polyhedra. A three-dimensional shape whose faces are polygons is known as a polyhedron. This term comes from the Greek words poly, which means many, and hedron, which means face.. So, quite literally, a polyhedron is a three-dimensional object with many faces.