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Solid figure having ten faces
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decahedron
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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.
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 ) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A polyhedron with ten faces.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any polyhedron having ten plane 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.