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- noun Plural form of
icosahedron .
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Examples
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Clathrins, located at the tips of microtubules, are truncated icosahedra, abuzz with golden ratios.
Jane Chafin: Andy Warhol, Killer of Art? / Small Books, Big Ideas Jane Chafin 2011
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Virus coats cannot form exact spheres, but they do the best they can: icosahedra are made from 20 triangles, each an array of protein units, like the balls at the start of a game of pool.
New Angles on Biology Keith Devlin 2011
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Virus coats cannot form exact spheres, but they do the best they can: icosahedra are made from 20 triangles, each an array of protein units, like the balls at the start of a game of pool.
New Angles on Biology Keith Devlin 2011
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jaime_d commented on the word icosahedra
from "The Richard Nixon Freischutz Rag" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010