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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A polygon with ten angles and ten sides.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In geometry, a plane figure having ten sides and ten angles. When all the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular decagon.

Wiktionary

  1. n. geometry A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Geom.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles

Etymologies

  1. deca- + -gon (Wiktionary)
  2. Medieval Latin decagōnum, from Greek dekagōnon, from neuter of dekagōnos, having ten angles : deka, ten. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “In Friday's edition of the journal Science, Lu and Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt report finding a set of polygon-shaped tiles — a decagon, pentagon, diamond, bowtie and hexagon — that were arranged into distinctive patterns found on major Islamic buildings from the 12th through 15th centuries.”

    Geometry Meets Arts in Islamic Tiles

  • “To put it simply, this bike climbs like a squirrel, descends like a greased squirrel on a luge, corners like a decagon, and accelerates like a methamphetamine-addicted rabbit.”

    Happy Birthday To Me: BSNYC Turns 1

  • “Art historians have until now assumed that the intricate tilework had been created using straight edges and compasses, but the study in Science suggests the Islamic artisans were using a basic toolkit of girih tiles made up of shapes such as the decagon, pentagon, diamond and hexagon.”

    Archive 2007-02-01

  • “These mosaics are formed from five polygons -- a decagon, a pentagon, a lozenge, a hexagon and a triangle -- each representing a unique decorative motif.”

    Archive 2007-02-01

  • “Running through each polygon a decagon, pentagon, diamond, bowtie or hexagon is a decorative line.”

    Archive 2007-02-01

  • “In Friday's edition of the journal Science, Lu and Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt report finding a set of polygon-shaped tiles -- a decagon, pentagon, diamond, bowtie and hexagon -- that were arranged into distinctive patterns found on major Islamic buildings from the 12th through 15th centuries.”

    Archive 2007-02-01

  • “I try and look at the good side, but how can you you see the good side when you're an decagon with 9 bad sides?”

    sierrazen Diary Entry

  • “E, a decagon fragment, which contains a somewhat less full account of the Kirbit campaign, and a picturesque narrative of the opening of diplomatic relations with Lydia.”

    Assyrian Historiography

  • “The first known was Cylinder A, a decagon, whose lines divide the document into thirteen parts.”

    Assyrian Historiography

  • “The first of these finds (crd. 36°) and (crd. 72°) from the geometry of the inscribed pentagon and decagon; the second”

    The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield

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