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icosahedron::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | polyhedron |
| Derivation | icosahedral |
Examples of icosahedron
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Many viruses, such as the herpes virus, have the shape of a regular icosahedron.
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The icosahedron shares its vertex arrangement with three Kepler-Poinsot solids.
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Other Platonic solids include the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the icosahedron.
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These shells naturally buckle into a specialized 20-sided shape called an icosahedron.
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Three, the tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron, have triangular faces.
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An icosahedron can also be called a gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid.
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An icosahedron is used in the board game Scattergories to choose a letter of the alphabet.
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However, neither the regular icosahedron nor the regular dodecahedron are amongst them.
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A wireframe model of an icosahedron, one of the five Platonic solids.
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- Any polyhedron having twenty plane faces
- (icosahedral) of or relating to an icosahedron
- In geometry, an icosahedron (/u02CCau026Aku0252su0259u02C8hiu02D0dru0259n, -ku0259-, -kou028A-/ or /au026Au02CCku0252su0259u02C8hiu02D0dru0259n/) is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes from Greek u03B5u1F34u03BAu03BFu03C3u03B9 (eu00EDkosi), meaning "twenty", and u1F15u03B4u03C1u03B1 (hu00E9dra), meaning "seat". The plural can be either "icosahedra" (/-dru0259/) or "icosahedrons".
- (Icosahedral) a solid figure with 20 planar faces.
- (icosahedral) having twenty equal sides or faces.
- An icosahedron has five equilateral triangles at each corner
- A geometric figure composed of 12 vertices, 20 triangular faces and 30 edges.
- A solid figure contained by 20 equal and equilateral triangles.
- A three dimensional shape made using 20 faces
