Meaning of truncated dodecahedron | Babel Free
Definitions
An Archimedean solid with thirty-two regular faces (twelve decagons and twenty triangles) and ninety edges.
Equivalents
Italiano
dodecaedro troncato
Examples
“1813, Spinell, entry in John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth (editors), Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Volume XI: SPA — TZE, unnumbered page, This, which may be regarded as a brown garnet or schoerl in truncated dodecahedrons of Rome de Lisle, was originally found in the island of Ceylon, among tourmalines and other crystalline substances, with which it was confounded.”
“The morphologies commonly observed in bcc materials include truncated dodecahedrons with {110} faces and {100} truncations and cubes with {100} faces.”
“Void shapes were found to be generally truncated dodecahedra with {011} faces and {001} truncations.”
“1996, T. A. Fournelle, K. W. Weston, Generalizations of Steinberg Groups, World Scientific Publishing, Series in Algebra, Volume 4, page 176, The edges of the linkages lie on the edges of a truncated dodecahedron. Note that the group of orientation preserving symmetries of a truncated dodecahedron is precisely A₅.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.