Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a dodecahedron: as, the dodecahedral cleavage of sphalerite. Also
duodecahedral .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.
- adjective See under
Cleavage .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having
twelve plane surfaces
Etymologies
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Examples
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A strange looking dodecahedral object, the size of a small room, descends gently from above and thumps down with a rattle of its instruments.
HELLO • by Ishwar 2008
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For the 120-cell the boundary space is SO (3)/A_5 for A_5 the alternating group of the dodecahedral group.
The Lopsided Universe Sean 2008
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Importantly, calculations for a dodecahedral universe predict that this is the angle you would see.
Our Repeating Pentagonal Universe Zoe Brain 2008
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Unfortunately, out of the some 20,000 new books published each year in the United States -- of which a daily paper can review perhaps 450 -- only about three will be in any way solipsistic, dodecahedral, or prelapsarian.
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Unfortunately, out of the some 20,000 new books published each year in the United States -- of which a daily paper can review perhaps 450 -- only about three will be in any way solipsistic, dodecahedral, or prelapsarian.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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There is a pattern for a knitted dodecahedral ball out there, though.
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I am going to hold my ground here, suffer in decimal mode until campy comes out with a dodecahedral speed drive system
This Just In: (One) Less is (One) More BikeSnobNYC 2008
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The Quintrino is a dodecahedral shape with a large and hidden inner volume.
The Art of Geometry 2007
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On the other hand, Roukema et al. 2004 performed the same analysis for smaller circles, and found six pairs of matched circles distributed in a dodecahedral pattern, each circle on an angular size about 11◦.
Jefferys on "The Privileged Planet" - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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The Platonic bodies have often served as patterns, and hydrocarbons had already been synthesised as tetrahedral, cubic or dodecahedral (12-sided) structures.
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