geometric shape
Sign in to savegeometric information which remains when location, scale, orientation and reflection are removed from the description of a geometric object
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- general term
- Image
- Platonic Solids Stereo 1 - Tetrahedron.gif
- Said to be same as
- locus
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- Commons category
- Geometric shapes
- topic's main category
- Category:Geometric shapes
- has list
- list of geometric shapes
- has characteristic
- volume
- different from
- Figure
- partially coincident with
- shape
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Encyclopedic overview
A children's toy called Shape-O, made by Tupperware, used for learning various shapes
A shape is a graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface. It is distinct from other object properties, such as color, texture, or material type. In geometry, shape excludes information about the object's position, size, orientation and chirality. A figure is a representation including both shape and size (as in, e.g., figure of the Earth).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “geometric shape” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.