ICOSAHEDRA

ICOSAHEDRON

icosahedron

(noun) any polyhedron having twenty plane faces

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

icosahedra

plural of icosahedron

Source: Wiktionary


ICOSAHEDRON

I`co*sa*he"dron, n. Etym: [Gr. (Geom.)

Definition: A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces. Regular icosahedron, one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangules meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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