| Pronunciation: | | I`kowsu'heedrun
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[n] any polyhedron having twenty plane faces |
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ICOSAHEDRON is a 11 letter word that starts with I. |
| | See Also: | | polyhedron |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \I`co*sa*he"dron\, n. [Gr. ?; ? twenty + ? seat,
base, fr. ? to sit.] (Geom.)
A solid bounded by twenty sides or faces.
{Regular icosahedron}, one of the five regular polyhedrons,
bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangles
meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A geometrical shape occurring in many virus particles, with 20 triangular faces and 12 corners. |
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