noun
A polyhedron whose vertices are identical and whose faces are regular polygons of at least two different types.
Origin of Archimedean solid
After Archimedes who first described such polyhedrons
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A polyhedron whose faces are regular polygons and whose angles are all congruent. The faces may all be of the same type, in which case the solid is a regular polyhedron, or may be of different types. There are only thirteen Archimedean solids.
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