Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
any polyhedron having four plane faces;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tetrahedron \Tet`ra*he"dron\, n. [Tetra- + Gr. ? seat, base, fr.
? to sit.] (Geom.)
A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.
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Note: In crystallography, the regular tetrahedron is regarded
as the hemihedral form of the regular octahedron.
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Regular tetrahedron (Geom.), a solid bounded by four equal
equilateral triangles; one of the five regular solids.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tetrahedron
n 1: any polyhedron having four plane faces