Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, a plane figure having ten sides and ten angles. When all the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular decagon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry A
polygon with ten sides and ten angles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Geometry Meets Arts in Islamic Tiles JDsg 2007
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To put it simply, this bike climbs like a squirrel, descends like a greased squirrel on a luge, corners like a decagon, and accelerates like a methamphetamine-addicted rabbit.
Happy Birthday To Me: BSNYC Turns 1 BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Running through each polygon a decagon, pentagon, diamond, bowtie or hexagon is a decorative line.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Running through each polygon a decagon, pentagon, diamond, bowtie or hexagon is a decorative line.
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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.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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These mosaics are formed from five polygons -- a decagon, a pentagon, a lozenge, a hexagon and a triangle -- each representing a unique decorative motif.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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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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Art historians have until now assumed that the intricate tilework had been created using straight edges and compasses, but the study in Science suggests the Islamic artisans were using a basic toolkit of girih tiles made up of shapes such as the decagon, pentagon, diamond and hexagon.
Islamic artists were 500 years ahead of Western scientists 2007
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These mosaics are formed from five polygons -- a decagon, a pentagon, a lozenge, a hexagon and a triangle -- each representing a unique decorative motif.
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Art historians have until now assumed that the intricate tilework had been created using straight edges and compasses, but the study in Science suggests the Islamic artisans were using a basic toolkit of girih tiles made up of shapes such as the decagon, pentagon, diamond and hexagon.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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