Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A figure consisting of many lines.
- noun In geometry, a system of n coplanar straights (sides), with all the flat-pencils (fans) they determine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A figure consisting of many lines.
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- noun A
figure consisting of manylines .
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Examples
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Okay ... let's demand it straight. let's demand that Sandy Berger take a public polygram and then be sentenced to life in prison.
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KOLKATA, June 21: The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI today detained a youth in connection with the murder of Tapasi Malik in Singur about six months back and took him to Delhi for a polygram test, commonly known as lie detector test.
CPM member arrested for his role in Tapasi Maliks murder Abhay N 2007
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Be that as it may, it became the form universal for signets, and bore the monogram or polygram of kings unnumbered and of chiefs unknown, so that the fictle Scarabæus doubtless carries to-day more strange messages for us than did the great original to his first observers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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The intravenous polygram (IVP) is also invasive and involves dyeing the urinary tract and taking an x-ray to see how well the kidneys drain urine.
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Note: The music bed between sets is the william orbit remix of pierre henry's "psyche rock" taken from the 1997 album metamorphose -- messe pour le temps present featuring the music of pierre henry and michel colombier (FFRR/polygram 4562942).
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Note: The music bed between sets is the william orbit remix of pierre henry's "psyche rock" taken from the 1997 album metamorphose -- messe pour le temps present featuring the music of pierre henry and michel colombier (FFRR/polygram 4562942).
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Note: The music bed between sets is the william orbit remix of pierre henry's "psyche rock" taken from the 1997 album metamorphose -- messe pour le temps present featuring the music of pierre henry and michel colombier (FFRR/polygram 4562942).
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Note: The music bed between sets is the william orbit remix of pierre henry's "psyche rock" taken from the 1997 album metamorphose -- messe pour le temps present featuring the music of pierre henry and michel colombier (FFRR / polygram 4562942).
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Note: The music bed between sets is the william orbit remix of pierre henry's "psyche rock" taken from the 1997 album metamorphose -- messe pour le temps present featuring the music of pierre henry and michel colombier (FFRR / polygram 4562942).
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Note: The music bed between sets is the william orbit remix of pierre henry's "psyche rock" taken from the 1997 album metamorphose -- messe pour le temps present featuring the music of pierre henry and michel colombier (FFRR/polygram 4562942).
oroboros commented on the word polygram
A word where each letter occurs more than once: e.g., intensities.
--Chris Cole, Wordplay
May 23, 2008