pentahedron
Sign in to saveIn geometry, a pentahedron (: pentahedra) is a polyhedron with five faces or sides. There are no face-transitive polyhedra with five sides, and there are two distinct topological types. Notable polyhedra with regular polygon faces are: File:Square pyramid.png|Square pyramid with four triangles and one square. Pyramids with any quadrilateral base have the same number of faces. File:Triangular prism.png|Triangular prism with three rectangles and two triangular bases. In the case of a right triangular prism, it is a special case of wedge with connecting parallel edges between triangles; the wedg
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In geometry, a pentahedron (: pentahedra) is a polyhedron with five faces or sides. There are no face-transitive polyhedra with five sides, and there are two distinct topological types. Notable polyhedra with regular polygon faces are:
File:Square pyramid.png|Square pyramid with four triangles and one square. Pyramids with any quadrilateral base have the same number of faces. File:Triangular prism.png|Triangular prism with three rectangles and two triangular bases. In the case of a right triangular prism, it is a special case of wedge with connecting parallel edges between triangles; the wedge generally has two triangles and three quadrilateral faces. Topologically, the triangular frustum is the same polyhedron, but the two triangles are different sizes, and the sides are slanted trapezoids.