Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
- cavity
- space that is surrounded by something
- polyhedral angle
- the space enclosed by three or more planes that intersect in a vertex
- angle of inclination
- (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)
- quadrangular prism
- a prism whose bases are quadrangles
- polygon
- a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides
- closed curve
- a curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints
- zag
- an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- concave polygon
- a polygon such that there is a straight line that cuts it in four or more points
- convex polygon
- a polygon such that no side extended cuts any other side or vertex; it can be cut by a straight line in at most two points
- face angle
- the angle formed by two edges of a polyhedral angle
- corrugation
- a ridge on a corrugated surface
- quadric surface
- a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree
- ellipsoid
- a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles
- amorphous shape
- an ill-defined or arbitrary shape
- straight line
- a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature
- juncture
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- frustum
- a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed
- branch
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- impression
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- parallelepipedon
- a prism whose bases are parallelograms
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