polygonal
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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These images revealed craters that expose ice, patterned ground known as polygonal terrain, and other surface features that often indicate ice just below the surface.
From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025
Buckminster Fuller favored the geodesic dome — an arrangement of triangular or polygonal panels — because it was lightweight and cost-effective.
From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022
At one point I dropped into a polygonal comedy club and quickly fled, mortified.
From Slate • Sep. 1, 2022
When it comes to creating a digital scoreboard or figuring out how to calculate the distance between polygonal borders on a sphere, “I can quickly tell there’s a right answer here,” Train said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
What must the previous history of the planet have been to create sheared rocks, buried boulders, polygonal gouges in the ground?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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