octagon

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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 b) The preceding diagram is completed and becomes more monumental in style in the sketch next to it (MS. B, 35a, see p. 45 Fig.

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  1. noun A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.

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  • It is an octagon, and upon the top there is a flag-staff thirty feet high. —  Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe
  • To her right stood a fountain in the shape of half an octagon, a pair of obelisks framing the view of Boylston Street. —  AnalogSFF,Jan/Feb2004
  • The room forms an irregular octagon, admitting light through narrow unglazed apertures upon the broken and scattered fragments of the famous Rowleian chests, that with the rubble and dust of centuries cover the floor. —  Three Years in Europe
  • Barrio Adentro: a Cuban in every octagon, a pill in every mouth —  Caracas Chronicles
  • Each will contain an octagon, the eight-sided caged ring used in UFC fights. —  KLAS - Top Story News
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  1. = French octogone = Spanish octágono = Portuguese octogono = Italian ottagono, from Greek ὀκτάγωνος, eight-cornered (as a noun, an eight-cornered building), from ὀκτώ, = English eight, + γωνία, a corner, an angle.
 

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