Meanings
plural truncated icosidodecahedra · plural truncated icosidodecahedrons
- An Archimedean solid with 62 regular faces (12 decagons, 20 hexagons and 30 squares) and 180 edges.
It is also a Catalan solid, the disdyakis triacontahedron, dual of the truncated icosidodecahedron.
2007, Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics: International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, page 952 more examples
The Solid Shapes Lab, another Science Materials Center contribution to future mathematicians, together to form not only regular polyhedrons but rhombicosidodecahedrons, truncated icosidodecahedrons, and such.
1961, The New Yorker, Volume 37, Part 4, page 172The truncated icosahedron and truncated icosidodecahedron have fivefold symmetry and cannot four four-connected frameworks with lattice symmetry.
1962, The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, volume 33, page 1008Synonyms: great rhombicosidodecahedron, rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn Archimedean solid with 62 regular faces (12 decagons, 20 hexagons and 30 squares) and 180 edges.
Origin
From truncated + icosidodecahedron, referring to a partial construction method for the figure. (The resultant figure requires further distortion to make the faces regular.)
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Italian icosidodecaedro troncato
- icosidodecaedro troncatopolyhedron with 12 decagonal, 30 hexagonal and 30 square faces
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