Lateral Face

Pronunciation: /ˈlæt.ər.əl feɪs/ Explain

A lateral face of a polyhedron is a face that is on the side of the polyhedron, and not the top or bottom.

Click on the blue point on the slider and drag it to see all of the lateral faces of the cube. For this cube, which faces are not lateral faces? Manipulative 1 - Lateral Face Created with GeoGebra.

References

1. McAdams, David E.. All Math Words Dictionary, lateral face. 2nd Classroom edition 20150108-4799968. pg 106. Life is a Story Problem LLC. January 8, 2015. Buy the book

More Information

• McAdams, David E.. Polygon. allmathwords.org. All Math Words Encyclopedia. Life is a Story Problem LLC. 8/31/2018. https://www.allmathwords.org/en/p/polygon.html.

Cite this article as:

McAdams, David E. Lateral Face. 12/21/2018. All Math Words Encyclopedia. Life is a Story Problem LLC. https://www.allmathwords.org/en/l/lateralface.html.

Image Credits

• All images and manipulatives are by David McAdams unless otherwise stated. All images by David McAdams are Copyright © Life is a Story Problem LLC and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Revision History

12/21/2018: Reviewed and corrected IPA pronunication. (McAdams, David E.)
8/31/2018: Removed broken links, updated license, implemented new markup, implemented new Geogebra protocol. (McAdams, David E.)
8/7/2018: Initial version. (McAdams, David E.)