decagon

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

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

The Pantheon and the so-called Temple of Minerva Medica at Rome are early examples of the first variety, the first circular, the second a decagon in plan.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

To inscribe a regular decagon in a given circle.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

If then the bisected chord be a side of the decagon, and if the radius be still 1280, the double of the lesser segment exceeds 125.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

This side being known the decagon can be constructed, and if the vertices are joined alternately, leaving out half their number, we obtain the regular pentagon.

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