geometry Geometry (; ) is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician w ...

, the metabiaugmented dodecahedron is one of the

Johnson solid In geometry, a Johnson solid, sometimes also known as a Johnson–Zalgaller solid, is a convex polyhedron whose faces are regular polygons. They are sometimes defined to exclude the uniform polyhedrons. There are ninety-two Solid geometry, s ...

s (). It can be viewed as a

dodecahedron In geometry, a dodecahedron (; ) or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagons as faces, which is a Platonic solid. There are also three Kepler–Po ...

with two

pentagonal pyramid In geometry, a pentagonal pyramid is a Pyramid (geometry), pyramid with a pentagon base and five triangular faces, having a total of six faces. It is categorized as a Johnson solid if all of the edges are equal in length, forming Equilateral tria ...

s () attached to two faces that are separated by one face. (The two faces are not opposite, but not adjacent either.) When pyramids are attached to a dodecahedron in other ways, they may result in an

augmented dodecahedron In geometry, the augmented dodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (), consisting of a dodecahedron with a pentagonal pyramid () attached to one of the faces. When two or three such pyramids are attached, the result may be a parabiaugmented dod ...

(), a

parabiaugmented dodecahedron In geometry, the parabiaugmented dodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be seen as a dodecahedron with two pentagonal pyramids () attached to opposite faces. When pyramids are attached to a dodecahedron in other ways, they may resul ...

(), a triaugmented dodecahedron (), or even a

pentakis dodecahedron In geometry, a pentakis dodecahedron or kisdodecahedron is a polyhedron created by attaching a pentagonal pyramid to each face of a regular dodecahedron; that is, it is the Kleetope of the dodecahedron. Specifically, the term typically refers to ...

if the faces are made to be irregular.

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* Johnson solids {{Polyhedron-stub