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telstar

The English word “telstar” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A telecommunications satellite
  2. A soccer ball pattern with 32 panels of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, a rounded truncated icosahedron ball. The classic stereotypical black pentagon and white hexagon design.
  3. A ball with one of these design patterns.

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