Definition of Icosahedrons. Meaning of Icosahedrons. Synonyms of Icosahedrons

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Definition of Icosahedrons

Icosahedron
Icosahedron I`co*sa*he"dron, n. [Gr. ?; ? twenty + ? seat, base, fr. ? to sit.] (Geom.) A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces. Regular icosahedron, one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangles meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.

Meaning of Icosahedrons from wikipedia

- ἕδρα (hédra) 'seat'. The plural can be either "icosahedra" (/-drə/) or "icosahedrons". There are infinitely many non-similar shapes of icosahedra, some of...
- 600-cell. Regular icosahedrons can be found in nature, a common example is the adenoviruses. Other applications of the regular icosahedron are the usage of...
- In geometry, the truncated icosahedron is a polyhedron that can be constructed by truncating all of the regular icosahedron's vertices. Intuitively, it...
- In geometry, the great icosahedron is one of four Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra (nonconvex regular polyhedra), with Schläfli symbol {3,5⁄2} and Coxeter-Dynkin...
- Complete icosahedron may refer to: an icosahedron which has had none of its faces removed, as opposed to a partial icosahedron such as a geodesic hemisphere...
- its side and thus appears in the construction of the dodecahedron and icosahedron. A golden rectangle—that is, a rectangle with an aspect ratio of ⁠ φ...
- In geometry, the metabidiminished icosahedron is one of the Johnson solids (J62). The name refers to one way of constructing it, by removing two pentagonal...
- In geometry, the triakis icosahedron is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid, with 60 isosceles triangle faces. Its dual is the truncated dodecahedron...
- represented by its Schläfli symbol {5,3}. The dual polyhedron is the regular icosahedron {3,5}, having five equilateral triangles around each vertex. The convex...
- alternative name is diminished icosahedron because it can be constructed by removing a pentagonal pyramid from a regular icosahedron. The gyroelongated pentagonal...