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Solid


A closed three-dimensional figure (which may, according to some terminology conventions, be self-intersecting). Kern and Bland (1948, p. 18) define a solid as any limited portion of space bounded by surfaces. Among the simplest solids are the sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, and more generally, the polyhedra.


See also

Apple Surface, Archimedean Solid, Barrel, Catalan Solid, Cone, Cork Plug, Cube, Cuboctahedron, Cylinder, Cylindrical Hoof, Cylindrical Wedge, Dodecahedron, Geodesic Dome, Goursat's Surface, Great Dodecahedron, Great Icosahedron, Great Rhombicosidodecahedron, Great Rhombicuboctahedron, Great Stellated Dodecahedron, Icosahedron, Icosidodecahedron, Johnson Solid, Kepler-Poinsot Polyhedron, Lemon Surface, Möbius Strip, Octahedron, Platonic Solid, Polyhedron, Pseudosphere, Small Stellated Dodecahedron, Snub Cube, Snub Dodecahedron, Solid of Revolution, Sphere, Spherical Wedge, Steinmetz Solid, Stella Octangula, Surface, Tetrahedron, Torus, Truncated Cube, Truncated Dodecahedron, Truncated Icosahedron, Truncated Octahedron, Truncated Tetrahedron, Uniform Polyhedron, Wulff Shape

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Kern, W. F. and Bland, J. R. Solid Mensuration with Proofs, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1948.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Solid." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Solid.html

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