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Dodecahedral
Dodecahedral Do*dec`a*he"dral, a. Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides. Dodecahedral cleavage. See under Cleavage.
Dodecahedral cleavage
Dodecahedral Do*dec`a*he"dral, a. Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides. Dodecahedral cleavage. See under Cleavage.
Octahedral Dodecahedral or Rhombohedral
Cleavage Cleav"age, n. 1. The act of cleaving or splitting. 2. (Crystallog.) The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting. 3. (Geol.) Division into lamin[ae], like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure. Basal cleavage, cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes. Cell cleavage (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation. Cubic cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube. Diagonal cleavage, cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane. Egg clavage. (Biol.) See Segmentation. Lateral cleavage, cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. Octahedral, Dodecahedral, or Rhombohedral, cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of an octahedron, dodecahedron, or rhombohedron. Prismatic cleavage, cleavage parallel to a vertical prism.

Meaning of Dodecahedra from wikipedia

- star dodecahedra, which are constructed as stellations of the convex form. All of these have icosahedral symmetry, order 120. Some dodecahedra have the...
- Roman dodecahedra are cast in metal, usually a copper alloy, although one silver example is known. They are in the shape of regular dodecahedra, with...
- only the five Platonic solids as regular. The small and great stellated dodecahedra, sometimes called the Kepler polyhedra, were first recognized as regular...
- space with trapezo-rhombic dodecahedra. A face-centred cubic lattice gives a tessellation of space with rhombic dodecahedra. A body-centred cubic lattice...
- Regular dodecahedra have been used as dice and probably also as divinatory devices. During the ****enistic era, small hollow bronze Roman dodecahedra were...
- on each of the dodecahedra. Miwin's dodecahedra (set 1) win cyclically against each other in a ratio of 35:34. The miwin's dodecahedra (set 2) win cyclically...
- dual compound has two dodecahedra as pyritohedra in dual positions: Compound of two snub cubes Compound of two snub dodecahedra Skilling, John (1976)...
- The regular hyperbolic honeycombs thus include two with four or five dodecahedra meeting at each edge; their dihedral angles thus are π/2 and 2π/5, both...
- Compound of two snub dodecahedra Type Uniform compound Index UC69 Schläfli symbol βr{5,3} Coxeter diagram Polyhedra 2 snub dodecahedra Faces 40+120 triangles...
- two small stellated dodecahedra Compound of two snub cubes Compound of two snub dodecadodecahedra Compound of two snub dodecahedra Compound of two snub...