polygon

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At each corner of the polygon was a bastion, in which were stationed the big guns.

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  1. noun A closed plane figure bounded by three or more line segments.

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  • Also, I am not sure whether to add Chihaya in the expanding love polygon or not. —  Anime Nano!
  • The surface of the vast arctic plain where Phoenix landed on May 25 bears a pattern of polygon-shaped small hummocks, similar to some permafrost terrain on Earth. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • Taking example of filling both color and symbols with a centriod of polygon or two languages connected to one point etc, it is proved that the effect of the concurrent markup solution for SVG. —  unalog
  • Firstly, there's a polygon-based 2D side-scrolling shoot-'em-up. —  IGN Complete
  • A coloured polygon is drawn to represent the size of each tremor. —  Google Maps Mania
 

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hendecagon · kite · rhombus · trapezoid · parallelogram · rectangle · square · enneadecagon · tetradecagon · octagon · pentagon

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  1. Formerly polygone; = French polygone = Spanish polígono = Portuguese polygono = Italian poligono, a polygon, polygonal, from Late Latin polygonum, from Gr.πολύγωνον, a polygon, neuter of πολύγωνος, having many angles, from πολύς, many, + γωνία, corner, angle.
 

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/ˈpɑlɪgɑn/
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