Sentence examples for regular solid from inspiring English sources

Cube, in Euclidean geometry, a regular solid with six square faces; that is, a regular hexahedron.

Let us suppose that NYU's London campus in Bedford Square had a regular daytime arrangement with Birkbeck regarding these teaching rooms, such that Birkbeck had a reliable, regular, solid income on which it could plan, thereby helping it to maintain its mission.

The mechanism on a rotating wheel distinguishes itself from that on a regular solid disk.

Therefore, the widely-used linear extrapolation for enforcing no-slip boundary conditions should be avoided, even for regular solid boundaries.

It has a tell-tale wobble that is twice as big as expected for a moon with a regular, solid structure.

(The remaining regular solid, the dodecahedron, is "used for the universe as a whole," [55c4 6], since it approaches most nearly the shape of a sphere).

"It'll be hard to return to regular solid-body physics".

With cabins dangling hundreds of metres in the air, some people may not want to even look out of the window, while others will try to get on to one of the glass-floored cabins that have been added to the fleet of regular solid-floored gondolas at Kitzbühel and Whistler.

j) The golden ratio is found in many regular solids and crystals.

They possibly knew practical methods of constructing the five regular solids, but the theoretical basis for such constructions was given by non-Pythagoreans in the 4th century.

Going back to speculations introduced by Plato and the Pythagoreans, Kepler applied first the geometry of the regular solids and then musical harmonies to explain various aspects of the universe.