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dodecahedron

[ UK /də‍ʊdˌɛkɐhˈiːdɹən/ ]
NOUN
  1. any polyhedron having twelve plane faces

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  • The engraving shows that Geometry / Melancholy has not succeeded in fashioning a regular dodecahedron.
  • The fluorite tends to occur only as cubes modified by the dodecahedron, with simple cubes or octahedra uncommon or absent.
  • Finally, so as not to leave out the one remaining regular solid, he proposed that the dodecahedron represented the shape of the entire universe.
  • Plato would certainly have found the structure of C60 - an expanded dodecahedron, which is about as close to a sphere as you can get - to be an unusually beautiful body. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 - Presentation Speech
  • Place: -- the temporal mood of the Oversoul, playing through that particular facet of the dodecahedron, which is Greece. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
  • Hypsicles relates that his father and Basilides studied a treatise by Apollonius on a dodecahedron and an icosahedron in the same sphere and decided that Apollonius's treatment was not satisfactory.
  • The hyperbolic dodecahedron is quite symmetric and has the same symmetry group as a regular dodecahedron. Wolfram Blog : Making the Mathematica 6 Spikey
  • Four more Archimedeans appear in the Short book on the five regular solids: the truncated cube, the truncated octahedron, the truncated icosahedron and the truncated dodecahedron.
  • These five remarkable solids - tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron - have faces that are congruent equilateral polygons.
  • The rhombic dodecahedron and the common trapezohedron are the most common forms.
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