dodecahedron

noun
/ˌdəʊ.dɛk.əˈhiː.dɹən/UK/ˌdoʊ.dɛk.əˈhiː.dɹən/US

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δωδεκάεδρον (dōdekáedron). Equivalent to dodeca- + -hedron.

Definitions

  1. A polyhedron with twelve faces

    A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.

    • It took me two years, but by the time I was 12 I could imagine the fifth four-dimensional polytope, which is made up of 120 dodecahedrons.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dodecahedron. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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