Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A polyhedron having 20 faces.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A solid bounded by twenty planes. In the ordinary regular icosahedron the faces are equal equilateral triangles, equally inclined each to those adjacent to it. It has 12 vertices and 30 edges, 3 edges per face, 5 edges per vertex.
Wiktionary
- n. a polyhedron with twenty faces; the regular icosahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any polyhedron having twenty plane faces
Etymologies
- Greek eikosaedron : eikosi, twenty; see wīkm̥tī- in Indo-European roots + -edron, -hedron.
Examples
“The icosahedron is another of the five regular, or Platonic, bodies having all their sides, angles, and planes similar and equal.”
“Then, about 10 years ago, the mathematician Reidun Twarock developed a more general theory of the geometry of viruses based on the symmetries of the icosahedron, but using shapes in six dimensions, not three.”
“I've rolled the icosahedron and painted a few miniatures myself so it only raises my charisma to be accepted by that culture.”
“The company receives more than 1 million applications a year and identifies the top candidates through a rigorous screening process that analyzes SAT scores, grade-point averages and their performance on tests with such questions as: "How many different ways can you color an icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?”
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“Join five equilateral triangles together and you have the first part of an icosahedron C.”
“Only five shapes fit the bill: the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron and the dodecahedron, the quintet known as the Platonic solids since Plato wrote about them in the Timaeus.”
“The octahedron can be made from four cards and an icosahedron with ten of them.”
“The tetrahedron was fire, the cube earth, the octahedron air, the icosahedron water and the dodecahedron the encompassing dome.”
“This set of five polyhedra came with the faces already numbered, to make it easy to see that there were 12 sides on a dodacahedron, or 20 on an icosahedron, which made them easy to use as dice.”
“George Hart has nice pictures including an icosahedron as well.”
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Dungeons and Dragons
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Hedrons
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