Octagon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɒktəɡ(ə)n/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Octagon is a noun meaning (geometry, also attributively) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
Meaning
(geometry, also attributively) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
More Meanings
- (martial arts) Often in the form Octagon: the arena for mixed martial arts.
Example Sentences
China converted the hard octagons of the Turkoman rugs into circular scrolls or medallions, beautifying them meanwhile with floral character manifestly borrowed from the Persians and yet by no means Persian.
Bismuth is the most common of all native metallic substances. It is generally found either in cubes or octagons, or of a dendritical form, or else in thin laminæ investing the ores of other metals, particularly those of cobalt.
In like manner it is demonſtrated that one angle of a regular hexagon will be equal to one right angle, and one third part of one right angle; one angle of a regular octagon equal to one right angle and half a right angle; [...]
From the Circle deſcribe the Octagon, by taking half the Quadrant of the former for each Side of the latter. [...] [B]y conjoining theſe Points with ſtrait Lines agreeable to the Shape of the Octagon, the whole Work is completed.
Word Forms
- octagons
- octogon
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include octogon, hexagon, quadrangle, heptagon, icosidigon, sexagon.
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