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icosidodecahedron

icosidodecahedron noun: an Archimedean solid with thirty-two regular faces (twelve pentagons and twenty triangles).

icosidodecahedron: an Archimedean solid with thirty-two regular faces (twelve pentagons and twenty triangles)
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Noun

icosidodecahedron (plural icosidodecahedra or icosidodecahedrons)

  1. An Archimedean solid with thirty-two regular faces (twelve pentagons and twenty triangles).
    • […]together to form not only regular polyhedrons but rhombicosidodecahedrons, truncated icosidodecahedrons, and such.1961, The New Yorker, Volume 37, Part 4, page 172
    • A succession of 10 concentric icosidodecahedra centered at (0, 0, 0), forming a geometric sequence (the nᵗʰ one is τⁿ larger than the first one), is also put into evidence.1992, Jean-Louis Verger-Gaugry, Quasicrystals and the Concept of Interpenetration in m35-approximant Crystals with Long-range Icosahedral Atomic Clustering, A. R. Yavari, Ordering and Disordering in...

Examples of icosidodecahedron in a sentence

  • The edges of the octahedron form three squares; the edges of the cuboctahedron form four hexagons, and the edges of the icosidodecahedron form six decagons.2004, David Darling, The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes, page 263:
  • Thus, there is a star octahedron, three star dodecahedrons, and fifty-nine star icosidodecahedrons.2004, Marc-Alain Ouaknin, The Mystery of Numbers, unnumbered page:

Forms of icosidodecahedron

pluralicosidodecahedra
pluralicosidodecahedrons

Origin of icosidodecahedron

From icosi- + dodeca- + -hedron.

Words formed from icosidodecahedron

Questions about icosidodecahedron

What does icosidodecahedron mean?
Icosidodecahedron means an Archimedean solid with thirty-two regular faces (twelve pentagons and twenty triangles).
How do you use icosidodecahedron in a sentence?
The edges of the octahedron form three squares; the edges of the cuboctahedron form four hexagons, and the edges of the icosidodecahedron form six decagons.
What part of speech is icosidodecahedron?
Icosidodecahedron is a noun.
What is the plural of icosidodecahedron?
The plural of icosidodecahedron is icosidodecahedra.

Words near icosidodecahedron in the dictionary

  1. icosidodecadodecahedra
  2. icosidodecadodecahedron
  3. icosidodecadodecahedrons
  4. icosidodecahedra
  5. icosidodecahedral
  6. icosidodecahedron
  7. icosidodecahedrons
  8. icosihemidodecahedron
  9. icosihemidodecahedrons
  10. icosihenagon
  11. icosihenagons

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