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snub dodecahedron

snub dodecahedron noun: a polyhedron that has 12 pentagonal and 80 triangular faces and is an Archimedean solid.

snub dodecahedron: a polyhedron that has 12 pentagonal and 80 triangular faces and is an Archimedean solid
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Noun

snub dodecahedron (plural snub dodecahedra or snub dodecahedrons)

  1. A polyhedron that has 12 pentagonal and 80 triangular faces and is an Archimedean solid.
    • This gives two points, A’, A₁’, which are projections of vertices of the two enantiomorphous snub dodecahedra that can be inscribed in the regular dodecahedron.1935, L. Lines, Solid Geometry, page 182
    • The form can be derived by triangulating the pentagonal faces of the snub dodecahedron (Fig. 19).1992, Gábor Gévay, “Icosahedral Morphology”, in István Hargittai, editor, Fivefold Symmetry, page 198
    Synonyms:
    snub icosidodecahedron

Examples of snub dodecahedron in a sentence

  • In the case of the latter, two chiral members, the snub cube and the snub dodecahedron, are realized.2001, Ehud Keinan, Israel Schechter, Chemistry for the 21st Century, page 138:
  • The snub dodecahedron has 60 vertices, 150 edges and 92 faces of which 12 are pentagonal and 80 triangular.2006, P. W. Fowler, D. E. Manolopoulos, An Atlas of Fullerenes, page 50:

Synonyms of snub dodecahedron

  • snub icosidodecahedron

Forms of snub dodecahedron

pluralsnub dodecahedra
pluralsnub dodecahedrons

Origin of snub dodecahedron

From dodecahedron simum, Kepler's name for this solid in is 1619 work Harmonices Mundi.

Words formed from snub dodecahedron

  • dextro snub dodecahedron
  • laevo snub dodecahedron

Questions about snub dodecahedron

What does snub dodecahedron mean?
Snub dodecahedron means a polyhedron that has 12 pentagonal and 80 triangular faces and is an Archimedean solid.
How do you use snub dodecahedron in a sentence?
In the case of the latter, two chiral members, the snub cube and the snub dodecahedron, are realized.
What part of speech is snub dodecahedron?
Snub dodecahedron is a noun.
What is the plural of snub dodecahedron?
The plural of snub dodecahedron is snub dodecahedra.

Words near snub dodecahedron in the dictionary

  1. snub cube
  2. snub cubes
  3. snub disphenoid
  4. snub disphenoids
  5. snub dodecahedra
  6. snub dodecahedron
  7. snub nose
  8. snub noses
  9. snub post
  10. snub posts
  11. snub square antiprism

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