icosahedron
icosahedron
Definition
icosa·he·dron (ī′kō sə hē′drən)
i′cosa·he′·dral adjective
icosahedron
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- rotate: F rotates the icosahedron in various ways apparently looking for pentagon based pyramids on the " left " and " right " hand sides.
- call: Stainless steel nickel plated candle holder ( 20 sides - each side 1811 - see Para 12 ) shape is called an Icosahedron.
Adjective modifier
- 13-atom: This category includes the 13-atom icosahedron, which can be decomposed into twenty tetrahedra sharing a common vertex.
- truncated: Several of these arise naturally as crystals, and the truncated icosahedron occurs in real life as a football.
- regular: The boron skeleton takes the form of a regular icosahedron.
- minimum: The energy is measured relative to the energy of the global minimum icosahedron.
- global: The energy is measured relative to the energy of the global minimum icosahedron.
- underlying: Structure 69C has a vertex atom missing from the underlying Mackay icosahedron like 38A.
Noun used with modifier
- Mackay: Further growth then leads to the next Mackay icosahedron.
- water: In order to see some of these more clearly, 64 of the 280 water molecules have been removed from the water icosahedron.
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