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Decagon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A polygon with ten angles and ten sides.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In geometry, a plane figure having ten sides and ten angles. When all the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular decagon.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles

Word Usage

"In Friday's edition of the journal Science, Lu and Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt report finding a set of polygon-shaped tiles — a decagon, pentagon, diamond, bowtie and hexagon — that were arranged into distinctive patterns found on major Islamic buildings from the 12th through 15th centuries."

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polygon polygonal shape

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