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Also known as facet, surface, side

in geometry, a planar surface that forms part of the boundary of a solid object

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Subclass of
facet
Part of
polytope
Has part
polygon
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has facet polytope
edge
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Encyclopedic overview

The face (red) of a cube (black)

In solid geometry, a face is a flat surface (a planar region) that forms part of the boundary of a solid object. For example, a cube has six faces in this sense.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “face” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.