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 plan of the church was a decagon, within which six composite columns in the centre supported six semi-circular vaults.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

The purpose of this problem is to prepare for the construction of the regular decagon and pentagon.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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

If we make the sides of this triangle equal to the radius of the given circle, then the base will be the side of the regular decagon inscribed in the circle.

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