Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tetrahedron

Tetrahedron , noun

[Tetra- + Greek {not transcribed} seat, base, from {not transcribed} to sit.]

(Geometry) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.

In crystallography, the regular tetrahedron is regarded as the hemihedral form of the regular octahedron.

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Regular tetrahedron (Geometry) , a solid bounded by four equal equilateral triangles; one of the five regular solids.