Un tetraedro (del griego τέτταρες 'cuatro' y ἕδρα 'asiento, base de apoyo') es un poliedro de cuatro caras. Con este número de caras ha de ser un poliedro convexo, y sus caras triangulares, encontrándose tres de ellas en cada vértice. Si las cuatro caras del tetraedro son triángulos equiláteros, iguales entre sí, el tetraedro se denomina regular. El tetraedro es el símplex tridimensional. De otra manera, un tetraedro es una pirámide de base triangular.

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In geometry, a tetrahedron (plural: tetrahedra or tetrahedrons) is a polyhedron composed of four triangular faces, six straight edges, and four vertex corners. The tetrahedron is the simplest of all the ordinary convex polyhedra and the only one that has fewer than 5 faces. The tetrahedron is the three-dimensional case of the more general concept of a Euclidean simplex. The tetrahedron is one kind of pyramid, which is a polyhedron with a flat polygon base and triangular faces connecting the base to a common point. In the case of a tetrahedron the base is a triangle (any of the four faces can be considered the base), so a tetrahedron is also known as a "triangular pyramid". Like all convex polyhedra, a tetrahedron can be folded from a single sheet of paper. It has two such nets. For any tetrahedron there exists a sphere (called the circumsphere) on which all four vertices lie, and another sphere (the insphere) tangent to the tetrahedron's faces.

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