octagon
IPA: ˈɑktʌgɑn
noun
- (geometry, also attributively) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
- (martial arts) Often in the form Octagon: the arena for mixed martial arts.
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Examples of "octagon" in Sentences
- Watching he and Coleman sloshing around the octagon is a joke.
- The octagon was a room perhaps one hundred feet across and thirty feet high.
- Fergusson has pointed out that the roof of the octagon is the only Gothic dome in existence.
- The octagon is an eight-sided figure, the intervening shape between the circle and the square.
- These are placed at the intersection of a system of semicircles, of which the sixteen columns on the sides of the octagon are the centres.
- Brendhan pointed out a majority of the talent at 205 lbs. resides within the UFC, but there's one man who doesn't call the octagon his home and that man is
- The reason why it was called by this name was, that the principal sitting-room in the house was built in the form of an octagon, that is, instead of having four sides, as a room usually has, this room had eight sides.
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