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icosahedron

/(ˌ)aɪˌkoʊsəˈhiːdɹən/

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What does icosahedron mean?

noun

  1. A polyhedron with twenty faces.
  2. A regular icosahedron: one of the Platonic solids, all of whose faces are regular (equilateral) triangles

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Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.
Peter Mark RogetRoget's ThesaurusProject Gutenberg ebook #22
From the triangle of which the hypotenuse is twice the lesser side the three first regular solids are formed—first, the equilateral pyramid or tetrahedron; secondly, the octahedron; thirdly, the icosahedron; and from the isosceles triangle is formed the cube.
PlatoTimaeusTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1572