Digon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈdaɪɡən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Digon is a noun meaning (geometry) A polygon having two edges and two vertices.
Meaning
(geometry) A polygon having two edges and two vertices.
More Meanings
- A pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph.
- A pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph.
Example Sentences
They [the students] also came upon new and unusual mathematical figures: the digon, a two-sided polygon on a spherical space, and the apeirogon, an open polygon with infinitely many sides […]. All these discoveries brought up even more questions. Is a circle a polygon? What makes an octagon an octagon – its eight vertices, its eight sides, or both? Can a polygon cross itself? Does a polygon need to be closed?
Word Forms
- digons
Synonyms for digon
Depending on context, synonyms include biangle, bigon, diangle.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bigon, biangle, diangle, monogon, dihectagon, icosidigon.
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