Rhombicosidodecahedron

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English

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An illustration of a transparent rhombicosidodecahedron.

Etymology

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Template:Etymon Template:Lbor (Template:Coinage (1571–1630) in his work Harmonices Mundi Libri V (The Harmony of the World in Five Books, 1619)),[1] a Template:Glossary of Template:Der + Template:M + Template:M + Template:M.[2] The English word is analysable as a Template:Blend, referring to the fact that the 30 square faces lie in the same planes as the 30 rhombic faces of the Template:W, which is dual to the icosidodecahedron.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. Template:Lb An Archimedean solid with 62 regular faces (20 triangles, 30 squares, and 12 pentagons), 60 vertices and 120 edges.
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