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pentominoes

pentominoes is the plural of pentomino.

Meaning of pentomino

Noun

pentomino (plural pentominoes)

  1. A polyomino consisting of five square units. When packing pentominoes into three-dimensional shapes, the square units commonly are expanded into cubes instead of being flattened.
    • If a domino had four squares on its surface, it would be a tetromino. With five squares, it would be a pentomino—nine, a nonomino, eleven, an unwieldy undecomino!2011 October 15, Maki Kaji, The Big Book of Visual Sudoku, Workman Publishing Company, page 118
    Synonyms:
    5-omino

Questions about pentominoes

What is pentominoes the plural of?
Pentominoes is the plural of pentomino.

Words near pentominoes in the dictionary

  1. pentolinium
  2. pentolite
  3. pentols
  4. pentomic
  5. pentomino
  6. pentominoes
  7. penton
  8. Penton Grafton
  9. pentonal
  10. pentonate
  11. pentonates

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