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pentagonal hexecontahedron

pentagonal hexecontahedron noun: a Catalan solid with 60 irregular pentagonal faces, 150 edges and 92 vertices, being the dual of the snub dodecahedron.

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Noun

pentagonal hexecontahedron (plural pentagonal hexecontahedra)

  1. A Catalan solid with 60 irregular pentagonal faces, 150 edges and 92 vertices, being the dual of the snub dodecahedron.
    • Fig. 11b shows the three sub-implosions-- face-to-vertex, face-to-edge, face-to-face-- to give the dual pentagonal hexecontahedron. Full implosion consists of these three together.1976, Gulzar Haider, Paul Fazio, André Biron, Comptes Rendus: Congress Mondial de L'IASS Sur Les Enceintes Spatiales, Du 4 Au 9 Juillet 1976, Montreal, Canada, page 62

Forms of pentagonal hexecontahedron

pluralpentagonal hexecontahedra

Questions about pentagonal hexecontahedron

What does pentagonal hexecontahedron mean?
Pentagonal hexecontahedron means a Catalan solid with 60 irregular pentagonal faces, 150 edges and 92 vertices, being the dual of the snub dodecahedron.
What part of speech is pentagonal hexecontahedron?
Pentagonal hexecontahedron is a noun.
What is the plural of pentagonal hexecontahedron?
The plural of pentagonal hexecontahedron is pentagonal hexecontahedra.

Words near pentagonal hexecontahedron in the dictionary

  1. pentaglycines
  2. pentaglycosylceramide
  3. pentaglycosylceramides
  4. pentagon
  5. pentagonal
  6. pentagonal hexecontahedron
  7. pentagonal icositetrahedron
  8. pentagonal prism
  9. pentagonal prisms
  10. pentagonally
  11. pentagonals

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