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pentagonal icositetrahedron

pentagonal icositetrahedron noun: a Catalan solid with 24 irregular pentagonal faces, 60 edges and 38 vertices, being the dual of the snub cube.

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Noun

pentagonal icositetrahedron (plural pentagonal icositetrahedra)

  1. A Catalan solid with 24 irregular pentagonal faces, 60 edges and 38 vertices, being the dual of the snub cube.
    • The pentagonal icositetrahedron is enantiomorphous, and as such the two possible varieties are distinct forms of the solid, which cannot be brought into identity by rotation.1922, Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, Crystallography and Practical Crystal Measurement, page 167

Forms of pentagonal icositetrahedron

pluralpentagonal icositetrahedra

Questions about pentagonal icositetrahedron

What does pentagonal icositetrahedron mean?
Pentagonal icositetrahedron means a Catalan solid with 24 irregular pentagonal faces, 60 edges and 38 vertices, being the dual of the snub cube.
What part of speech is pentagonal icositetrahedron?
Pentagonal icositetrahedron is a noun.
What is the plural of pentagonal icositetrahedron?
The plural of pentagonal icositetrahedron is pentagonal icositetrahedra.

Words near pentagonal icositetrahedron in the dictionary

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

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