Pentagram

Quick meaning: Pentagram is a noun meaning The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.

Meaning

The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.

Example Sentences

Four figures involve 12 pentagrams arranged as in the faces of a dodecahedron with their vertices touching.

Prove that the circles so belonging to the 6 pentagrams formed by 6 lines meet in a point, and so on; the series of theorems being interminable.

The passive pentagrams of spirit are drawn first in the quarters of the passive elements—water and earth—and likewise followed by the appropriate traditional elemental pentagram.

Word Forms

• pentagrams
• pentagramme

Synonyms for pentagram

Depending on context, synonyms include pentacle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pentacle, pentagramme, heptagram, heptangle, hexagram, pentacontagon.

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