pentagon

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  1. noun A polygon having five sides and five interior angles.
  2. noun A five-sided building near Washington, D.C., containing the U.S. Department of Defense and the offices of the U.S. Armed Forces. Used with the.

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  • The pentagon is the most videotaped building in DC and they would have to have footage of the event, so stop being the disingenuous schmuck that you are. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • It's shaped like a pentagon, with two sides spilling water, or so it seems, into the Newport Beach, —  azcentral.com | news
  • It looks like the pentagon is involved with propaganda to try and "sell policy": —  Firedoglake
  • Weve got an extradition treaty with the USA that means poor sods like John Bingham get carted off to have the book thrown at him by an embarrased pentagon, all with barely a whimper from the British Govt, or "we" the people. —  The Pirate Bay - Blog
  • David sobel, md web posted: 03 / 18 / 2008 2: 00 cdt brac will hear lots of sob (save our bases) stories in addition, the pentagon is expected to close some overseas bases and transfer as. —  xml's Blinklist.com
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  1. Late Latin pentagōnum, from Greek pentagōnon : penta-, penta- + -gōnon, -gon.

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  1. from Late Latin pentagonium, pentagon, from pentagonius, pentagonus = Greek πεντάγωνος;, five-cornered, quinquangular, neuter πεντάγωνον, a pentagon, from πέντε, five, + γωνία, an angle, a corner.
 

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