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Icosahedron: Geometry / Aɪkɵsə Hi DRƏN/ /aɪ Kɒsə Hi DRƏN/ Polyhedron

An icosahedron is a polyhedron with 20 triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids and has five triangles meeting at each vertex. The name comes from the Greek words for "twenty" and "seat", referring to its 20 faces.

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Icosahedron: Geometry / Aɪkɵsə Hi DRƏN/ /aɪ Kɒsə Hi DRƏN/ Polyhedron

An icosahedron is a polyhedron with 20 triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. It is one of the five Platonic solids and has five triangles meeting at each vertex. The name comes from the Greek words for "twenty" and "seat", referring to its 20 faces.

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Icosahedron

In geometry, an icosahedron (/akshidrn/ or /akshidrn/) is apolyhedron with 20 triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. A regular icosahedron with identical equilateral faces is often meant because of its geometrical significance as one of the five Platonic solids. It has five triangular faces meeting at each vertex. It can be represented by its vertex figure as 3.3.3.3.3 or 35, and also by Schlfli symbol {3,5}. It is the dual of thedodecahedron, which is represented by {5,3}, having three pentagonal faces around each vertex. A regular icosahedron is a gyroelongated pentagonal bipyramid and a biaugmentedpentagonal antiprism in any of six orientations. The name comes from the Greek: , from (ekosi) "twenty" and (hdra) "seat". The plural can be either "icosahedrons" or "icosahedra" (-/dr/).

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