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📚 noun • entry_id 5815

dodecahedron

/ˌdəʊ.dɛk.əˈhiː.dɹən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dodecaedro
A polyhedron with twelve faces; the regular dodecahedron has regular pentagons as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.
1707, Thomas Blount, Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words, D. Brown, heading DO–DO, Dodecahedron, (Gr.) in Geometry, is a solid Figure of 12…
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.
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