dodecahedron
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- noun
- /ˌdoʊdɛkəˈhiːdrən/
- Specialized
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dodecaedro
- Artists often use a dodecahedron to inspire their three-dimensional sculptures due to its unique twelve-sided structure.
- shape of a dodecahedron
It looks like this is a a bunch of assembled dodecahedrons.
- It looks like this is a a bunch of assembled dodecahedrons.
- So you haven't dodecahedron and when you connect all the dots of the dodecahedron, you have an icosahedron.
Examples
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Examples of complex terms from various STEM fields are tessellation, ignimbrite, hysteresis, and dodecahedron.
Academic text (2013) -
The icosidodecahedron (ID) can be constructed as a truncation of either an icosahedron or a dodecahedron.
Blog text (8) -
Oh, and the rarest of all, an inverted dodecahedron.
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The usual pentagonal dodecahedron is one of the five Platonic solids.
Blog text (8) -
The first results came at us in terms of twelve directions—hence the dodecahedron.
Fiction book (1992) -
In geometry class, we learned that a dodecahedron has twelve flat faces that are often shaped like regular pentagons.
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The dodecahedron is a solid figure that can be created by connecting twelve pentagonal faces.
Compounds
How Many Faces
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130
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Surface Forms
Morphology
dodecahedron = hedron (transparent) = dodeca + hedron
The word is a direct combination of the Greek numeral prefix 'dodeca-' (twelve) and '-hedron' (face/solid), yielding 'twelve-faced solid'; the formation is compositionally clear though the morphemes are technical.
Etymology
The word dodecahedron comes from Greek parts dodeca- meaning 'twelve', like a 'dozen', and -hedron meaning 'face' or 'seat'. So a dodecahedron is literally 'twelve-faced', which is why it is a solid with twelve flat faces.