ICOSAHEDRON

icosahedron

(noun) any polyhedron having twenty plane faces

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

icosahedron (plural icosahedra or icosahedrons)

(geometry) A polyhedron with twenty faces.

(geometry, specifically) A regular icosahedron: one of the Platonic solids, all of whose faces are regular (equilateral) triangles

Source: Wiktionary


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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