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Definition of Decahedron
1. Noun. Any polyhedron having ten plane faces.
Definition of Decahedron
1. n. A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.
Definition of Decahedron
1. Noun. A polyhedron with ten faces. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decahedron
1. [n -DRONS or -DRA]
Medical Definition of Decahedron
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Origin: Pref. Deca- + Gr. 'edra a seat, a base, fr. 'ezesthai to sit: cf. F. Decaedre.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decahedron
Literary usage of Decahedron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"decahedron. 4Gk.) Named from its I decent, ten (sec Ten^ ; and air, a man ten
sides or bases. .... decahedron."
2. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, A. M. (Alistair Matheson) Duncan, Eric J. Aiton, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"... decahedron, for reasons similar to those given in the previous case.™ It is
shown numbered 7. If we replace the decagon angle by a dodecagon angle the ..."
3. Annals of Chymistry and Practical Pharmacy (1843)
"... the Pyramido-decahedron, &c. (diamond, say ammoniac, common salt, sulphate of
zinc, most of the simple metals, &c. Fig. 1, 12). ft. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"See above, and see decahedron. DODGE, to go hither and thither, evade, quibble.
(E. ?) • Let there be some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity;' ..."
5. Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1889)
"It was not in human nature to put up with a decahedron name, and one parted in
the middle at that! If we had moved to substitute "Home Protection," we ..."
6. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod by Royal Society (Great Britain), Herbert McLeod (1908)
"star-shaped, of m sides, theory of numbers applied to determine number. Л/inin,
AP Mosc. S. Sc. Bll. 93 (No. 1) — : 5-gon, decahedron. ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The crystals are frequently twinned, the twin-axis coinciding with a triad axis;
a rhombic decahedron so twinned (fig. 3) has no re-entrant angles. ..."
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