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Ten-faced solid
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decahedron
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Wikipedia
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In geometry , a decahedron is a polyhedron with ten faces . There are 32300 topologically distinct decahedra and none is regular, so this name is ambiguous. With regular faces: Octagonal prism (uniform 8- prism ) Square antiprism (uniform 4- antiprism ) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decahedron \Dec`a*he"dron\, n.; pl. E. Decahedrons , L. Decahedra . [Pref. deca- + Gr. 'e`dra a seat, a base, fr. 'e`zesthai to sit: cf. F. d['e]ca[`e]dre.] (Geom.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.
WordNet
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n. any polyhedron having ten plane faces
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A polyhedron with ten faces.
Usage examples of decahedron.
The faint glow of hidden tights played over rocks and crystals culled from diverse planetary systems, here reflecting from a blue-green amorphous mineral, there glimmering through a clear yellow decahedron.
The crew pressure vessel was a decahedron of green-anodized aluminum-lithium alloy, with pentagonal viewports of transparent silicon carbide that gave the crew windows that looked ahead, ahead and down, and downward to the left and right.