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Definition of Pentahedrons
1. pentahedron [n] - See also: pentahedron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentahedrons
Literary usage of Pentahedrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Solid Geometry and to the Study of Crystallography by Nathaniel John Larkin (1820)
"12, or the section of the two pentahedrons proper, mutually intersecting each
other (fig. 24.) What has been said of the ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1838)
"These pentahedrons exhibit " a species of double refraction, previously found in
no other mineral." They possess " planes of no double refraction, ..."
3. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1838)
"These pentahedrons exhibit " a species of double refraction, previously found in
no other mineral." They possess " planes of no double refraction, ..."
4. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by a Square, with Illustration by by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1899)
"... Cylinders, Cones, Pyramids, pentahedrons, Hexahedrons, Dodecahedrons, and
Spheres; but I ventured to interrupt him. Not that I was wearied of knowledge. ..."
5. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by David Brewster, Robert Jameson, Royal Society of Edinburgh (1824)
"... into twenty- four similar pentahedrons. If we transmit polarised light through
the mineral in a direction perpendicular to any of the faces of the cube, ..."
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