Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having twenty faces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geom.) Having twenty equal sides or faces.
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- adjective of, relating to, or having the shape of an
icosahedron
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to an icosahedron
Etymologies
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Examples
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As the liquid alloys cool, islands form within them where the atoms are in what is called icosahedral order.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Researchers had previously been unable to determine the virus's structure because they had assumed that, like many other viruses, it's capsid had a design known as icosahedral symmetry.
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The dimples are arranged in a "icosahedral" pattern.
Hooked On Golf Blog 2009
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Most are either icosahedral or helical, which means as the author helpfully notes that they are shaped like a football or a spiral staircase.
New Angles on Biology Keith Devlin 2011
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Most are either icosahedral or helical, which means as the author helpfully notes that they are shaped like a football or a spiral staircase.
New Angles on Biology Keith Devlin 2011
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Integration of the nondivergent barotropic equation with an icosahedral hexagonal grid on the sphere.
Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models 2009
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So we need 5 indices for polygonal quasicrystals and 6 indices for icosahedral quasicrystals.
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For the four volume restricted to the 24-cell the bounding space is then given by the quotient space SO (3)/I, where I is the binary icosahedral group given by the cyclotomic field on F_9.
The Lopsided Universe Sean 2008
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Bucky Fuller did an icosahedral projection map that is somewhat famous.
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They consider 4 different dynamic cores, including finite volume, spectral, semi-lagrangian, and icosahedral finite difference.
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