Definition of Solid Figures

Solid figures are three-dimensional objects. What this means is that solid figures have a width, a depth, and a height. For example, look at your computer, laptop, phone, or whatever else you are using to view this lesson. Notice that it has a width, a depth, and a height.

This may make you think that solid figures are probably quite common in the environment around us, and you are right! Anything with those three dimensions (width, depth, and height) is a solid figure, and because we live in a three-dimensional world, these figures are all around us. In mathematics, there are many solid figures.

Let's look at these figures and some examples of them in our everyday life.