decagon

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

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

Below the arches are the chapels which surround the decagon in symmetrical fashion.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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

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

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