---
tag: 0325SGSJAR
kind: concept
name: Polyhedron
msc: [52B10]
sources:
  - url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyhedron
    locator: lead section
same_as:
  wikidata: Q172937
  wikipedia: Polyhedron
---

## Summary

A polyhedron is a three-dimensional figure with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and corner points, the vertices. The word names the solid or its boundary surface. Cubes, pyramids and prisms are polyhedra.