Platonic
Platonic is derived from the Greek philosophers Plato and means as much as " the philosophy of Plato belonging " or "on the philosophy of Plato based ".
Examples of use
- Under a platonic love refers to a purely spiritual or psychological, not physical relationship between two people.
- In mathematics, a Platonic solid describes a body which is bounded by congruent regular polygons of the same number of pages and have all of whose vertices have the same number of edges.
- In chemistry Platonic hydrocarbons denote saturated hydrocarbons whose carbon skeletons possess the geometrical structures Platonic solid.
- In astronomy, a Platonic year refers to the precession period of about 25,800 years.
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