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Octagon

/ˈɒktəɡ(ə)n/

A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.

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noun
  1. 1

    A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.

  2. 2

    Often in the form Octagon: the arena for mixed martial arts.

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octogonnounObsolete form of octagon. [(geometry, also attributively) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.]
hexagonnoun(geometry) A polygon with six sides and six angles.
quadranglenoun(geometry) A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.
heptagonnounA polygon with seven sides and seven angles.
icosidigonnoun(geometry) A polygon with twenty two sides and twenty two angles.
sexagonnounAlternative form of hexagon. [(geometry) A polygon with six sides and six angles.]
enneacontagonnoun(geometry) A polygon with 90 sides and 90 angles.
dihectagonnoun(geometry, rare) A polygon with two hundred sides and two hundred angles.
pentagonnoun(geometry) A polygon with five sides and five angles.
octahedronnoun(geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.
icosikaidigonnoun(geometry) A polygon with twenty two sides and twenty two angles.
great cubicuboctahedronnoun(geometry) A nonconvex uniform polyhedron that has faces of eight triangles, six squares and six octagrams
octohedronnounAlternative form of octahedron. [(geometry) a polyhedron with eight faces; the regular octahedron has regular triangles as faces and is one of the Platonic solids.]
oxygonnoun(geometry, archaic) An acute triangle.
octopolenoun(physics) A multipole configuration with eight equal charges arranged in a circular pattern.
octakishexahedronnoun(geometry, rare) A polyhedron with 48 faces.
icosihenagonnoun(geometry) A polygon with twenty-one edges and twenty-one angles.
cuboctahedronnoun(geometry) An Archimedean solid that has fourteen faces (eight triangular and six square) and is both isogonal and isotoxal.
icositrigonnoun(geometry) A polygon with 23 sides and 23 angles.
icositetragonnoun(geometry) A polygon with 24 sides and 24 angles.

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