A geometric solid. The answer is NOT polyhedron. A cone, for example, which is a figure made up of the most simple geometric shapes (a straight line) and a circle, is not a polyhedron.
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It is a figure which is made up of two or more simpler shapes.
The vertex of an angle
A shape that is made up of two or more shapes is called a composite figure.
A geometric figure that has three line segments for sides is a triangle. Rectangles and squares are made of four line segments, while a circle is made out of a pair of arcs.
A closed geometric figure could be called a polylateral - but that is a very obscure word - or simply a polygon. Generally such a figure is referred to in terms of how many lines it is composed of: 3 = triangle 4= quadrilateral 5 = pentagon, etc.