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Definition of Icosahedra
1. icosahedron [n] - See also: icosahedron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Icosahedra
Literary usage of Icosahedra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900: Subject Indexby Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"icosahedra, regular. Klein, CF Erlang. Ps. Md. S. Sb. 9 (1877) 16-, 70-, 179-; Mth.
A. 12 (1877) 503-. Integral IF^ dx trary limits. and allied forms ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1836)
"... to the icosahedral structure,—approximately, however, as we cannot understand
icosahedra thus to mould each other, —the Endogene races of plants. ..."
3. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1898)
"icosahedra : construction, iv, 81—2 ; axial systems, v, 531—9 ; Klein on rotations
of, x, 153 ; as regular solids, x, 270—3; automorphic function, xi, 169, ..."
4. A Brief History of Mathematics by Karl Fink, Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith (1903)
"According to the statement of Timaeus of Locri,* fire is made up of tetrahedra,
air of octahedra, water of icosahedra, earth of cubes, ..."
5. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1836)
"In general, to the icosahedral structure,—approximately, however, as we cannot
understand icosahedra thus to mould each other, i—the Endogene races of ..."
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