icosahedral
IPA: aɪkˈɑsʌhˈidrʌɫ
adjective
- Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
Examples of "icosahedral" in Sentences
- The dimples are arranged in a "icosahedral" pattern.
- Bucky Fuller did an icosahedral projection map that is somewhat famous.
- So we need 5 indices for polygonal quasicrystals and 6 indices for icosahedral quasicrystals.
- Integration of the nondivergent barotropic equation with an icosahedral hexagonal grid on the sphere.
- As the liquid alloys cool, islands form within them where the atoms are in what is called icosahedral order.
- They consider 4 different dynamic cores, including finite volume, spectral, semi-lagrangian, and icosahedral finite difference.
- Most are either icosahedral or helical, which means as the author helpfully notes that they are shaped like a football or a spiral staircase.
- Researchers had previously been unable to determine the virus's structure because they had assumed that, like many other viruses, it's capsid had a design known as icosahedral symmetry.
- For the four volume restricted to the 24-cell the bounding space is then given by the quotient space SO (3)/I, where I is the binary icosahedral group given by the cyclotomic field on F_9.