icosahedron (Meaning)

Wordnet

icosahedron (n)

any polyhedron having twenty plane faces

Webster

A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

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The icosahedron, a regular polyhedron with 20 triangular faces, is a marvel of Platonic geometry.
The ancient Greeks considered the icosahedron to represent the universe.
An icosahedron has 12 vertices and 30 edges, making it unique among Platonic solids.
The volume of an icosahedron is one-quarter that of a sphere with the same edge length.
Icosahedrons are used in the construction of soccer balls, providing their distinctive spherical shape.
In crystallography, certain metal alloys form icosahedral crystals with a unique quasicrystalline structure.
The icosahedron is a key component in the design of the Buckyball, a geodesic dome with exceptional strength.
An icosahedron can be constructed from 20 equilateral triangles or 12 pentagons.
The icosahedron is the dual polyhedron of the dodecahedron, another Platonic solid with 12 pentagonal faces.
Despite its unusual shape, an icosahedron can easily be inscribed within a cube or sphere.

any polyhedron having twenty plane facesA solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.

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The icosahedron, a regular polyhedron with 20 triangular faces, is a marvel of Platonic geometry.

The ancient Greeks considered the icosahedron to represent the universe.

An icosahedron has 12 vertices and 30 edges, making it unique among Platonic solids.

The volume of an icosahedron is one-quarter that of a sphere with the same edge length.