polygon

[pol-ee-gon]

noun

a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides.

Origin of polygon

1560–70; < Latin polygōnum < Greek polýgōnon, noun use of neuter of polýgōnos many-angled. See poly-, -gon

Related formspo·lyg·o·nal

[puh-lig-uh-nl] /pəˈlɪg ə nl/, adjectivepo·lyg·o·nal·ly, adverbsub·po·lyg·o·nal, adjectivesub·po·lyg·o·nal·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for polygonal

Contemporary Examples of polygonal

In third person, you are a camera that can control a polygonal character, but you are not that character.
I Felt Like Showering After the First-Person Sex in ‘Grand Theft Auto’
Alec Kubas-Meyer
November 22, 2014
In a third person games you just control a polygonal character.
I Felt Like Showering After the First-Person Sex in ‘Grand Theft Auto’
Alec Kubas-Meyer
November 22, 2014

Historical Examples of polygonal

As a rule the apses are circular within and polygonal without.
Byzantine Churches in Constantinople
Alexander Van Millingen
He also wrote a book On Polygonal Numbers of which only a fragment survives.
The Legacy of Greece
Various
If polygonal, the leaves were arranged on it in a spiral order, as in the elm or oak.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2)
John Ruskin
The noon sunlight sheeted with gold the bronze flanks of the polygonal yews.
The Reef
Edith Wharton
Shell thin walled, with irregular, polygonal pores, twice to four times as broad as the bars; six to eight on the radius.
Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)
Ernst Haeckel

British Dictionary definitions for polygonal

polygon

noun

a closed plane figure bounded by three or more straight sides that meet in pairs in the same number of vertices, and do not intersect other than at these vertices. The sum of the interior angles is (n –2) × 180° for n sides; the sum of the exterior angles is 360°. A regular polygon has all its sides and angles equal. Specific polygons are named according to the number of sides, such as triangle, pentagon, etc

Derived Formspolygonal (pəˈlɪɡənəl), adjectivepolygonally, adverb

Word Origin for polygon

C16: via Latin from Greek polugōnon figure with many angles

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Word Origin and History for polygonal

polygon

1570s, from Latin polygonum, from Greek polygonon, noun use of neuter of adjective polygonos "many-angled," from polys "many" (see poly-) + -gonos "angled," from gonia "angle" (see knee (n.)). Related: Polygonal.

polygonal in Science

polygon

[pŏl′ē-gŏn′]

A closed plane figure having three or more sides. Triangles, rectangles, and octagons are all examples of polygons.♦ A regular polygon is a polygon all of whose sides are the same length and all of whose interior angles are the same measure.

polygonal in Culture

polygon

In geometry, a closed figure having three or more sides and lying on one plane.