truncated dodecahedron
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
8
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An Archimedean solid with thirty-two regular faces (twelve decagons and twenty triangles) and ninety edges.
Example Sentences
- "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."