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pol·y·he·dron
/ ˌpäliˈhēdrən/
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n.
(pl. -he·drons
or -he·dra
/ -ˈhēdrə/ ) Geom.
a solid figure with many plane faces, typically more than six.
DERIVATIVES:
pol·y·he·dral
/ -ˈhēdrəl/ adj.
pol·y·he·dric
/ -ˈhēdrik/ adj.
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POLYHEDRA IN POLAND
Magazine article from: Mathematics Teaching; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...inducted me into the land of polyhedra! My small collection of polyhedra gradually grew into Archimedean...icosahedron, compounds of Platonic polyhedra and many others. I also discovered...articles and books, among them Polyhedron Models (Wenninger, 1971...
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Polyhedra Announces Support For Silicon Graphics IRIX/MIPS Operating Platform; NASA Projects Utilizing SIG origin Platform Driving Requirement for Real-Time Database Performance.
Business Wire; 1/31/2000; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000 Polyhedra Plc, today announced delivery of polyhedral...on the SGI Origin family of servers. Polyhedra has made the commitment to support SGI...for SGI high-performance computing. Polyhedra brings fault tolerant technology leadership...
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Polyhedra Announces Support For Silicon Graphics IRIX/MIPS Operating Platform; NASA Projects Utilizing SGI Origin Platform Driving Requirement for Real-Time Database Performance.
Business Wire; 2/1/2000; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000 Polyhedra Plc, today announced delivery of Polyhedra, a leading In-memory Object-relational...system on the SGI Origin family of servers. Polyhedra has made the commitment to support SGI in...
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Polyhedra Announces Fault Tolerant Real-time Embedded Database is Succeeding as Core Technology in a New Breed of Network Access Equipment for Communications Infrastructure.
Business Wire; 3/12/2001; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001 Polyhedra Plc, the leading fault tolerant embedded...generation communication infrastructure. Polyhedra is the core real-time fault tolerant...Communication infrastructure equipment Polyhedra is embedded in includes multifunction...
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Polyhedra improves performance of industry's first commercial in-memory database management system for real-time applications.
M2 Presswire; 4/30/2002; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-30 April 2002-Polyhedra: Polyhedra improves performance of industry's first commercial in...C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04292002 * Polyhedra Provides Small Footprint, Transaction-Based Technology...
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Polyhedra in-memory ORDB supports Microsoft's OLE/DB for event-driven real-time process control applications on Windows platforms.
M2 Presswire; 7/18/2001; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-18 July 2001-Polyhedra: Polyhedra in-memory ORDB supports Microsoft's OLE/DB for event...Facts: Enables Visual Basic programmers to make use of Polyhedra's real-time fault tolerant database Active queries eliminate...
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Polyhedra selected by Industry leaders as embedded in-memory database of choice for broadband communications applications.
M2 Presswire; 6/12/2001; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-12 June 2001-Polyhedra: Polyhedra selected by Industry leaders as embedded in-memory database...C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11062001 Polyhedra plc, the leading fault tolerant embedded In-memory database...
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Enea Announces Polyhedra DBMS Support for Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY Real-Time Operating System; Polyhedra Offers Secure, Reliable, High Performance Data Repository for Embedded Applications That Use the INTEGRITY RTOS.
Business Wire; 7/11/2005; 700+ words
; ...availability of release 6.1 of its Polyhedra(TM) memory-resident relational database...INTEGRITY real-time operating system. Polyhedra makes it easy for designers to build...sharing among application processes. Polyhedra is initially available for INTEGRITY...
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Enea Embedded Technology Introduces Polyhedra Database for LynxOS, Windows 2003 and Solaris 9; Polyhedra 5.1 Offers Enhanced Performance and Broadens Platform Support.
Business Wire; 7/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...today introduced version 5.1 of its Polyhedra(TM) relational database management...2003, Solaris 9 and VxWorks 5.5, Polyhedra 5.1 offers integral performance enhancements...to Java programmers. The extension of Polyhedra's platform support illustrates Enea...
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Enea Adds Fault Tolerance to Polyhedra FlashLite Relational Database Management System.
Business Wire; 7/28/2008; 700+ words
; ...fault-tolerant capabilities for its Polyhedra[R] FlashLite relational database management...requiring five nines or higher availability. Polyhedra FlashLite also features "hot upgrades...platforms, Windows Vista and VxWorks 6.x. Polyhedra FlashLite is the industry's fastest...
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Polyhedrons
Book article from: Mathematics
Polyhedrons A polyhedron is a closed, three-dimensional...together to regenerate the polyhedron of origin, a net therefore...easy construction of basic polyhedrons out of paper. The construction of polyhedron models can help make concepts...
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Polyhedron
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...points inside of the polyhedron. Convex polyhedrons, also known as...sections of a convex polyhedron are all convex polygons. Polyhedrons are classified...called a regular polyhedron. Only five regular polyhedrons exist: the tetrahedron...
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polyhedron
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
polyhedron , closed solid bounded by plane faces; each face of a polyhedron is a polygon . A cube is a polyhedron bounded by six polygons (in this...there are only five possible regular polyhedrons, having congruent faces, each a...
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Platonic Solids
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...platonic solids refers to regular polyhedra. In geometry, a polyhedron, (the word is a Greek neologism...What distinguishes regular polyhedra from all others is the fact...platonic solids, or regular polyhedra, are: the tetrahedron...
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Euler's formula
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
...conditions for an object to be a simple polyhedron . An object with V vertices, E edges...V – E + F = 1 For a simple polyhedron in Euclidean 3-space, the formula...form V – E + F = 2 A simple polyhedron is any polyhedron that can be continuously...
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