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Definition of Regular tetrahedron

Regular tetrahedron
Tetrahedron Tet`ra*he"dron, n. [Tetra- + Gr. ? seat, base, fr. ? to sit.] (Geom.) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles. Note: In crystallography, the regular tetrahedron is regarded as the hemihedral form of the regular octahedron. Regular tetrahedron (Geom.), a solid bounded by four equal equilateral triangles; one of the five regular solids.

Meaning of Regular tetrahedron from wikipedia

- the tetrahedron's faces. A regular tetrahedron is a tetrahedron in which all four faces are equilateral triangles. It is one of the five regular Platonic...
- A regular dodecahedron or pentagonal dodecahedron is a dodecahedron that is regular, which is composed of 12 regular pentagonal faces, three meeting at...
- the two forms a regular octahedron. The symmetries of a regular tetrahedron correspond to those of a cube which map each tetrahedron to itself; the other...
- In geometry, the truncated tetrahedron is an Archimedean solid. It has 4 regular hexagonal faces, 4 equilateral triangle faces, 12 vertices and 18 edges...
- stellation. Correspondingly, a regular octahedron is the result of cutting off from a regular tetrahedron, four regular tetrahedra of half the linear size...
- the faces of the other, and vice versa. The regular polyhedra show this duality as follows: The tetrahedron is self-dual, i.e. it pairs with itself. The...
- The Reuleaux tetrahedron is the intersection of four balls of radius s centered at the vertices of a regular tetrahedron with side length s. The spherical...
- isotetrahedron, sphenoid, bisphenoid, isosceles tetrahedron, equifacial tetrahedron, almost regular tetrahedron, and tetramonohedron. All the solid angles...
- simplexes or simplices) is a generalization of the notion of a triangle or tetrahedron to arbitrary dimensions. The simplex is so-named because it represents...
- composed of equilateral triangles: the tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron.: p.238  In particular, the tetrahedron, which has four equilateral triangles...