polygon
IPA: pˈɑɫɪgɑn
noun
- (geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.
- (geometry) The boundary of such a figure.
- (geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
- (geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.
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Examples of "polygon" in Sentences
- The term polygon is applied to figures having flat sides equidistant from a common centre.
- This is the purple polygon, which is a part of the county near Driscoll, which is affected by this.
- How many diagonals can be drawn in the po? the measure of an exterior angle of a regular polygon is 30 degrees.
- When an English-speaking child is confronted for the first time with the word polygon, he needs an explanation.
- Measuring Po by admin on Jul. 03, 2009, under Uncategorized the measure of an exterior angle of a regular polygon is 30 degrees.
- He took the circle to be an infinilateral regular polygon, that is, a regular polygon with an infinite number of (infinitesimally short) sides.
- You can see here on the radar screen, this pink polygon, that is where that tornado warning is for northwest Alabama and the cell itself really, really weakening here.
- And this polygon, which is a new way that we indicate severe weather warnings out of the National Weather Service, kind of zooms it in and narrows it down just a little bit.
- The next step is to see where the meteorological stations are and the assign each station an area of influence defined as a polygon whose boundary is the 1/2 way point between adjacent stations, old fashioned way of doing polygonised ore reserves so that we end up each station having an area assigned to it.
- His mathematical friends could have told him, that though it was talked of as a polygon, it was not supposed to be a square; but _polygon_ would not have rhymed to _stare_; and poets, when they launch into the ocean of words, must have an eye to the helm; at all events a poet, who is not supposed to be a student of the exact sciences, may be forgiven for a mathematical blunder.
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