Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A polyhedron with ten faces.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In geometry, a solid having ten faces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geom.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A polyhedron with ten faces.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any polyhedron having ten plane faces

Etymologies

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deca- + -hedron

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Examples

  • Second, aren't the ten things are really sides of the same decahedron?

    Ten Ideas Worth Thinking About, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • I don't have the time to figure out who Jay is; I have already met him several times and he has more faces than a decahedron, thank you.

    Congrats to Dan Seals Ellen Beth Gill 2007

  • We only want want genuine listeners and readers, of course, so please answer this question in your e-mail - - what are the names of the decahedron-shaped fighter ships from planet Cerberus?

    Spherical Tomi - Final episode JackMangan 2006

  • We only want want genuine listeners and readers, of course, so please answer this question in your e-mail - - what are the names of the decahedron-shaped fighter ships from planet Cerberus?

    Archive 2006-02-01 JackMangan 2006

  • E!) features women portrayed as the unsympathetic side of a tabloid triangles, or in the case of Tiger Woods, a decahedron.

    LJWorld.com stories: News By Kevin McDonough 2010

  • E!) features women portrayed as the unsympathetic side of a tabloid triangles, or in the case of Tiger Woods, a decahedron.

    LJWorld.com stories: News By Kevin McDonough 2010

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