icosahedron
English
A regular icosahedron
Alternative forms
- eicosaedrum (obsolete)
- icosaedrum (obsolete)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek εἰκοσάεδρον (eikosáedron), from εἴκοσι (eíkosi, “twenty”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “face of a geometrical solid”).
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
Related terms
- icosahedral
- icosahedrite
- truncated icosahedron
Translations
a polyhedron
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