icosahedron

Noun

Meaning

A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cube prism dodecahedron figure block box triangle cone cuboid icosahedral decahedron hexahedron octahedron dodecahedral Archimedean solid
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Hypernyms

polyhedron

Related terms

icosahedral icosahedrite

Derivatives

Icosahedra

Examples

An icosahedron is used in the board game Scattergories to choose a letter of the alphabet. Source: Internet

Another classification uses the geometrical shape of their capsid (often a helix or an icosahedron ) or the virus's structure (e.g. presence or absence of a lipid envelope ). Source: Internet

A regular icosahedron is a gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid and a biaugmented pentagonal antiprism in any of six orientations. Source: Internet

Construction This polyhedron can be constructed from an icosahedron with the 12 vertices truncated (cut off) such that one third of each edge is cut off at each of both ends. Source: Internet

Earth was associated with the cube, air with the octahedron, water with the icosahedron, and fire with the tetrahedron. Source: Internet

As it turns out, the icosahedron occupies less of the sphere's volume (60.54%) than the dodecahedron (66.49%). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

icosahedric icosahedrical icosahedrite icosahedronic icosandrian icosandrous