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hexahedron


regular hexahedron (cube)
A polyhedron with six faces; it also has eight corners and 12 edges. A regular hexahedron, with all its faces perfect squares, is a cube. A hexahedron is a generaliztion of a quadrilateral in three dimensions. There are seven topologically distinct convex hexahedra.


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