- icosahedral
- adjective Date: circa 1828 of or having the form of an icosahedron
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Icosahedral symmetry — A Soccer ball, a common example of a spherical truncated icosahedron, has full icosahedral symmetry. A regular icosahedron has 60 rotational (or orientation preserving) symmetries, and a symmetry order of 120 including transformations that… … Wikipedia
Icosahedral prism — In geometry, an icosahedral prism is a convex uniform polychoron (four dimensional polytope). This polychoron has 22 polyhedral cells: 2 icosahedra connected by 20 triangular prisms. It has 70 faces: 30 squares and 40 triangles. It has 72 edges… … Wikipedia
Icosahedral 120-cell — In geometry, the icosahedral 120 cell is a star polychoron with Schläfli symbol {3,5,5/2}. It is one of 10 regular Schläfli Hess polychora.It is constructed by 5 icosahedra around each edge in a pentagrammic figure. The vertex figure is a great… … Wikipedia
icosahedral symmetry — an arrangement of viral subunits in which the structure of the viral capsid is characterized by symmetry having the rotation axes of a regular polygon with 20 triangular surfaces (icosahedron); each face contains several subunits, the total… … Medical dictionary
icosahedral — See icosahedron. * * * … Universalium
icosahedral — adjective Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron … Wiktionary
