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tetrahedron  

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  • In geometry, a tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons), also known as a triangular pyramid, is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the ordinary convex polyhedra.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahedron)

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  • triangular pyramid

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