In geometry, an octahedron (plural: octahedra) is a polyhedron with eight faces. A regular octahedron is a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at each vertex.
An octahedron is the three-dimensional case of the more general concept of a cross polytope.
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