Monogon

Quick meaning: Monogon is a noun meaning (geometry) A one-dimensional object comprising one vertex and one (not necessarily straight) edge both of whose ends are that vertex.

Meaning

(geometry) A one-dimensional object comprising one vertex and one (not necessarily straight) edge both of whose ends are that vertex.

More Meanings

1. (optics) A single-faceted reflector.
2. (geometry) A two-dimensional object comprising one vertex, one edge both of whose ends are that vertex, and one face filling in the hollow formed by that edge.

Example Sentences

A geodesic with multiple points contains at least one simple monogon.

A new optical scanner is described which serves as a monogon or single-facet device, providing one scan per shaft rotation.

There are no one-sided closed polygons on a plane. On the cube, however, monogons are a diverse and interesting class of figures.

An end-compressing monogon for F is a monogon properly embedded in the complimentary^([sic]) region C which is not homotopic (rel. boundary) into #92;partialC.

Word Forms

• monogons

Synonyms for monogon

Depending on context, synonyms include henagon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bigon, digon, moniamond, henagon, biangle, mononom.

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