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What is a polyhedron?

What is a polyhedron? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geometry) A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges.
  2. (optics) A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
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These are the distances from the center of the polyhedron to the vertices, edge midpoints, and face centers respectively.
The faces of the polyhedron appear to consist of two equilateral triangles and six somewhat irregular pentagons.
A cube is a regular polyhedron because all of its faces are congruent regular polygons.
Designed as a casing for a technical duct, this mosaic in glass paste is produced on a polyhedron.
The fifth regular polyhedron, the dodecahedron, was left over, so Plato proposed rather lamely that the god used it up for decorating the universe.
The points thus obtained are evidently the vertices of a polyhedron with plane faces.

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