icosahedron

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Icosahedron

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1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Noun
  - 1.2.1 Translations
  - 1.2.2 Related terms

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Greek icosa- + -hedron

[edit] Noun

Singular
icosahedron

Plural
icosahedra or icosahedrons

icosahedron (plural icosahedra or icosahedrons)

(geometry) a polyhedron with twenty faces; the regular icosahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.

[edit] Translations

a polyhedron

Finnish: ikosaedri fi(fi)
French: icosaèdre fr(fr) m.
German: Ikosaeder de(de) m. and n.
Hungarian: ikozaéder
Ido: ikosaedro

Norwegian: ikosaeder no(no) n.
Polish: dwudziestościan foremny m.
Portuguese: icosaedro pt(pt) m.
Spanish: icosaedro es(es) m.
Swedish: ikosaeder sv(sv) c.

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