pentagonal hexecontahedron

noun

A Catalan solid with 60 irregular pentagonal faces, 150 edges and 92 vertices, being the dual of the snub dodecahedron.

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nounpentagonal hexecontahedron (plural pentagonal hexecontahedra)

plural pentagonal hexecontahedra

  1. geometryA Catalan solid with 60 irregular pentagonal faces, 150 edges and 92 vertices, being the dual of the snub dodecahedron.

    Fig. 11b shows the three sub-implosions-- face-to-vertex, face-to-edge, face-to-face-- to give the dual pentagonal hexecontahedron. Full implosion consists of these three together.

    1976, Gulzar Haider, Paul Fazio, André Biron, Comptes Rendus: Congress Mondial de L'IASS Sur Les Enceintes Spatiales, Du 4 Au 9 Juillet 1976, Montreal, Canada, page 62
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