Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having seven angles or sides.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having seven angles or sides.
- adjective (Arith.) the numbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbers formed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, etc.
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- adjective Having seven angles and sides.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The final part of the instillation is a great heptagonal glass case in a darkened room.
"There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..." greygirlbeast 2009
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The inside of the cabinet door is inlaid with a heptagonal figure drawn from a single, infinitely recursive line.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Included in this research are speculations about this heptagonal figure and why it might have proved a natural choice as ornament for the Urbino studiolo.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Both figures are comprised of a single recursive line, suggesting that the selection of the heptagonal figure was deliberate.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Beside the central image of the city in the east wall, to which we will return momentarily, the heptagonal figure offers a perpetual motion machine by which to contemplate the interconnection of worldly and divine wisdom.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Regarding the visual pattern of the heptagonal figure at Urbino, it is worth considering Hugh of St. Victor's thoughts on the mnemonic potentials of geometry.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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I particularly liked the pair of coasters, intially the other coaster I made (above)has heptagonal symmetry and it was kind of an accident, the ones I made later (below) have hexagonal symmetry and actually fits as a regular pattern.
Archive 2007-09-01 miya^^ 2007
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I particularly liked the pair of coasters, intially the other coaster I made (above)has heptagonal symmetry and it was kind of an accident, the ones I made later (below) have hexagonal symmetry and actually fits as a regular pattern.
Trial doilyage! miya^^ 2007
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The conical roofs of the heptagonal temples, the staircases, terraces, and ramparts were being carved by degrees upon the paleness of the dawn; and a girdle of white foam rocked around the Carthaginian peninsula, while the emerald sea appeared as if it were curdled in the freshness of the morning.
Salammbo 2003
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The trouble was that there were so many different types of square wheelers; pentagonal wheels, hexagonal, heptagonal, octagonal, orthoganal, diagonal and pythagoral!
a fable, from uwebdev - emergency weblog; or: epersonae; or: elaine nelson 2003
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