Platonic

Platonic is derived from the Greek philosopher Plato and means something like " belonging to the philosophy of Plato " or "based on the philosophy of Plato".

Usage examples

• Under a platonic love is meant purely mental or emotional, not physical relationship between two people .
• In mathematics, a describes platonic bodies a body that of congruent regular polygons is limited the same page number, and all of whose vertices have the same number of edges.
• In chemistry, platonic hydrocarbons denote saturated hydrocarbons, the carbon structures of which have the geometric structures of platonic solids.
• In astronomy, a Platonic year denotes the precession period of around 25,800 years.

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