dodecahedron

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The most romantic aspect of the tradition concerning Hippasus is the report that he drowned at sea in punishment for the impiety of making public and giving a diagram of the dodecahedron, a figure with twelve surfaces each in the shape of a regular pentagon (Iamblichus,

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  1. noun A polyhedron with 12 faces.

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  • A yard away, standing patiently, was as stunning a young dwar - ven girl as he had ever seen. —  The Gates of Thorbardin
  • Twelve ships were to go out, radiating from Sol approximately in axes of a dodecahedron-but only approximately, as each ship's mission would be, not to search a volume of space, but to visit as many Sol-type stars as possible in the shortest time. —  Time For The Stars
  • “The earth is the sphere, the measure of all; round it describe a dodecahedron; the sphere including this will be Mars. —  Kepler
  • Personal Computer I am your personal computer Hello Stop Being Carbon CNN LensCrafters magnetic ID card instant noodles dodecahedron Lawry's Garlic Salt airbag employee number birth ATM —  Microserfs
  • The most romantic aspect of the tradition concerning Hippasus is the report that he drowned at sea in punishment for the impiety of making public and giving a diagram of the dodecahedron, a figure with twelve surfaces each in the shape of a regular pentagon (Iamblichus, —  Pythagoreanism
 

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  1. Greek dōdekaedron : dōdeka, twelve; see dodecagon + -edron, -hedron.

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  1. = French dodécaèdre, from New Latin dodecahedron, from Greek δώδεκα, twelve, + έδρα, a seat, base.
 

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/doʊdɛkəˈhidrən/
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