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decagon

[dek-uh-gon, -guhn] / ˈdɛk əˌgɒn, -gən /


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Most of the list came from the state eighth grade curriculum: barometer, decagon, perpendicular .

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

The story of the Shamash shum ukin revolt is continued by Cylinder C, a decagon, whose form points to the fact that it is a fuller edition.

From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)

To construct a regular pentagon, we find it convenient first to construct a regular decagon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

The solution is required later on in the construction of a regular decagon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

To inscribe a regular decagon in a given circle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

Of nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly; as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

A. Because it has ten sides and ten angles, and there are both regular and irregular decagons.

From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Wilderspin, Samuel




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