pentagons in English

noun
1
a plane figure with five straight sides and five angles.
In the second case, if the convex polygon is a pentagon incorporating all five points, then any four of these points can be connected to form a quadrilateral.
2
the pentagonal building serving as the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, near Washington, DC.

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1. It is easy to see that there are 12 pentagons on the ball.

2. Composed of 4,500 LED nodes arranged along a series of pentagons and hexagons, Buckyball is animated by custom software programmed by Villareal to display over 16 million distinct colors.

3. Buckminsterfullerene is a spherical fullerene that can be described as a planar monatomic graphite layer (graphene; Section 11.2.2), consisting of regular hexagons and regular pentagons, bent into a closed sphere

4. Definition of Buckminsterfullerene : a spherical fullerene C60 that is an extremely stable form of pure carbon, consists of interconnected pentagons and hexagons suggestive of the geometry of a geodesic dome, and is believed to be a major constituent of soot Examples of Buckminsterfullerene …