didodecahedron
didodecahedron noun: a solid with 24 faces consisting of scalene triangles.
Noun
didodecahedron (plural didodecahedra or didodecahedrons)
- A solid with 24 faces consisting of scalene triangles.
- Didodecahedrons are never seen in crystals, as predominating forms; but they are frequently met with as modifying faces, in combinations, principally in those in which the 6-sided prism predominates.1853, “Crystallography”, in Th[omas] Forrest Betton, transl., edited by James C[urtis] Booth and William L. Faber, Elements of Chemistry. For the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools., 2nd...
- […]a pair of opposite edges of every face are parallel, so that the form shows prominent zonal relationships which are not characteristic of didodecahedra in general.1946, F[rank] C[oles] Phillips, “The Thirty-two Classes”, in An Introduction to Crystallography, Longmans, Green and Co., part I (The External Symmetry of Crystals), pages 145–146
Forms of didodecahedron
| plural | didodecahedra |
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| plural | didodecahedrons |
Questions about didodecahedron
- What does didodecahedron mean?
- Didodecahedron means a solid with 24 faces consisting of scalene triangles.
- What part of speech is didodecahedron?
- Didodecahedron is a noun.
- What is the plural of didodecahedron?
- The plural of didodecahedron is didodecahedra.
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