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  • adjective having seven sides

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Examples

  • EC28: Why is a seven-sided figure included in the Urbino studiolo?

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Each level in the seven-sided structure will rotate an average 2.44 degrees between floor plates, giving the structure its distinctive fluid appearance; the building will turn a total of 360 degrees.

    Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Chicago Spire 2008

  • It is seven-sided, a heptagon, composed of an infinitely recursive single line.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • I dreamed of a room of vegetable lathes, worked by hobbit-like creatures that produced perfect, mathematically precise seven-sided tournes, each at an angle of 51.43 degrees to its neighbor.

    Sophie Brickman: On the Absurdity of Turning Vegetables 2009

  • Water that was shown the word “dream” formed a crystal with a beautiful seven-sided shape see page 35.

    The Miracle of Water Masaru Emoto 2007

  • These imprecise, seven-sided water crystals formed by being exposed to “dreams” are part of an in-between world.

    The Miracle of Water Masaru Emoto 2007

  • A single flower as we sat here waiting, but now a seven-sided flower, many-petalled, red, puce, purple-shaded, stiff with silver-tinted leaves — a whole flower to which every eye brings its own contribution.

    The Waves 2003

  • Kirk paused, studying the seven-sided dot on the screen as if trying to force it to yield its secrets by simple concentration.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • Finally, near the center, something nonluminous appeared in the star field, and soon its seven-sided shape was fuzzily evident.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

  • Kirk paused, studying the seven-sided dot on the screen as if trying to force it to yield its secrets by simple concentration.

    Chain of Attack Gene De Weese 2000

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