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English

Etymology

polygon +? -hood

Noun

polygonhood (uncountable)

1. (mathematics, rare) The state of being a polygon.
   • Richard R. Brockhaus (1991) Pulling up the ladder: the metaphysical roots of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, ?ISBN, page 195: “However, the circle lacks an essential property of polygonhood, namely having angles, and thus as a convenient fiction we refer to it as a degenerate case of a polygon.”
   • W.S. Anglin (1997) The Philosophy of Mathematics: the Invisible Art, ?ISBN, page 11: “None the less, for any natural number n > 3, there is a form of n-hood, and a form of n-sided polygon-hood. For example, when n = 4, we have the form of fourness and the form of squareness.”
   • Stephen Yablo (2008) Thoughts: Papers on mind, meaning and modality, ?ISBN, page 267: “To the absolutionist, this can only mean that as n decreases, the property of n-sided regular polygonhood puts stronger and stronger demands on those would seek to know it.”

Synonyms

• polygonality
• polygonness

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ????????? (polúg?non), from ????? (polús, “many”) and ????? (g?nía, “angle”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?l???n/, /?p?li??n/
• (US) enPR: päl??-gän, IPA^(key): /?p?li??n/
• Hyphenation: pol?y?gon

Noun

polygon (plural polygons)

1. (geometry) A plane figure bounded by edges that are all straight lines.
2. (geometry) The boundary of such a figure.
3. (geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
4. (geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:polygon

Hyponyms

• See Thesaurus:polygon

Meronyms

• See Thesaurus:polygon

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• polyhedron

Czech

Noun

polygon m

1. polygon (plane figure bounded by straight edges)

Synonyms

• mnohoúhelník

Derived terms

• polygonový

Further reading

• polygon in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• polygon in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

polygon c or n (singular definite polygonet or polygonen, plural indefinite polygoner)

1. polygon
   • 1967, Hans Sørensen, Nye Verga-studier: Romanen om Vizzini

     ... eller trekanten, rektanglet, parallelogrammet, kvadratet, ja, polygonet.

     ... or the triangle, the rectangle, the parallelogram, the square, indeed, the polygon.

   • 1799, Skrifter som udi det Kiøbenhavnske Selskab af Lærdoms og Videnskabers Elskere ere fremlagte og oplæste : i aarene .., page 512

     Altsaa er ogsaa idette Fald Polygonet ubestemt.

     Thus, in this case, too, the polygon is indefinite.

Declension

References

• “polygon” in Den Danske Ordbog

Swedish

Noun

polygon c

1. polygon

Declension

See also

• femkant
• fyrhörning
• fyrkant
• hexagon
• kvadrat
• månghörning
• rektangel
• sexkant
• trekant
• triangel