Crossword-Solution: DODECAHEDRON 12 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

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Dodecahedron n. A solid having twelve faces.

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A three-dimensional shape having twelve plane faces 1 answer
TWELVE-faced solid figure 1 answer
Twelve-faced solid 1 answer
a twelve-sided solid figure 1 answer
GEOMETRIC shape 39 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with DODECAHEDRON (5)

Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.
Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991
And there is a fifth figure (which is made out of twelve pentagons), the dodecahedron—this God used as a model for the twelvefold division of the Zodiac.
Timaeus Plato 1998
The fifth regular solid, or dodecahedron, cannot be formed by a combination of either of these triangles, but each of its faces may be regarded as composed of thirty triangles of another kind.
Timaeus Plato 1998
Pythagoras, that the world was formed of five solid figures which are called mathematical; the earth was produced by the cube, the fire by the pyramid, the air by the octahedron, the water by the icosahedron, and the globe of the universe by the dodecahedron.
Essays and Miscellanies Plutarch 2002
That the universe should have assumed the form of a wreath is certainly a matter for astonishment; but it would have been still more astonishing if it had been a cube, a rhomboid, or a dodecahedron, for then we should have had to suppose that something resembling the forces that shape crystals had acted upon the stars, and the difficulty of explaining the universe by the laws of gravitation would have been increased.
Curiosities of the Sky Garrett P. Serviss 2003

Quotes with DODECAHEDRON (3)

It's completely logical," explained the Dodecahedron. "The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have. Simple arithmetic, that's all. Suppose you had something and added something to it. What would that make?""More," said Milo quickly." Quite correct," he nodded. "Now suppose you had something and added nothing to it. What would you have?""The same," he answered again, without much conviction. "Splendid," cried the Dodecahedron. "And suppose you …
Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept is called the "division of a line in extreme and mean ratio" (DEMR). ... the concept occurs in two forms. The first is formulated in Proposition 11 of Book II. ... why did Euclid introduce different forms... which we can find in Books II, VI and XIII? ... Only three types of regular polygons can be faces of the Platonic solids: the equilateral triangle... t…
Alexey Stakhov "Golden" Non-Euclidean Geometry, The: Hilbert's Fourth Problem, "Golden" Dynamical Systems, and the Fine-Structure Constant
Is everyone with one face called a Milo?""Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things.""How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is called exactly what it is. The triangles are called triangles, the circles are called circles, and even the same numbers have the same name. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Ro…
Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
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