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truncated icosidodecahedron en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From truncated + icosidodecahedron, referring to a partial construction method for the figure. (The resultant figure requires further distortion to make the faces regular.)

Meanings

1. An Archimedean solid with 62 regular faces (12 decagons, 20 hexagons and 30 squares) and 180 edges.
   • 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 172:
   • 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 95:
   • The 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 1008:

Forms

Deriveds

great truncated icosidodecahedron

Synonyms

great rhombicosidodecahedron (polyhedron with 12 decagonal, 30 hexagonal and 30 square faces) · rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron (polyhedron with 12 decagonal, 30 hexagonal and 30 square faces)

Translations (1)

it icosidodecaedro troncato (polyhedron with 12 decagonal, 30 hexagonal and 30 square faces)