Heptagram

Quick meaning: Heptagram is a noun meaning Either of two regular seven-pointed stars, drawn with the construction lines retained; a heptangle.

Meaning

Either of two regular seven-pointed stars, drawn with the construction lines retained; a heptangle.

More Meanings

1. (rare) A heptagon.

Example Sentences

It was with the adoption and widespread use of the seven-day week throughout the Hellenistic world of mixed cultures that this heptagram [the weekday heptagram] was created.

Note that there are two different heptagrams, one goes around twice and the other thrice; moreover, the configuration at the core of the 3-heptagram is in fact a 2-heptagram and the figure at the core of that is an ordinary heptagon.

page 15: The exercise may be varied by tracing the Heptagram, i. e., passing from one point to another of a regular Heptagon in this order — 1, 4, 7, 3, 6, 2, 5, 1. page 81: If the hand is stiff, it may be loosened and trained into tune with Nature's formative processes by the practice of drawing the Pentagram and Heptagram.

Word Forms

• heptagrams

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heptangle, septogram, hexagram, eptagon, septangle, pentagramme.

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