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pentagon

[pen-tuh-gon, -guhn] / ˈpɛn təˌgɒn, -gən /


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Hint: It’s what you get when you subtract a twogon from a pentagon.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2025

The vision involves developing human capital, the digital economy and inclusivity and sustainability, he said, referring to it as the "pentagon strategy".

From Reuters • Sep. 4, 2023

They could arrange four hat tiles into a hexagonlike structure, two tiles into a pentagon and another combination of two tiles into a parallelogram.

From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2023

A pentagon is formed by placing an isosceles triangle on a rectangle, as shown in the diagram.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

This star, in turn, contains an even smaller pentagon, which contains a tinier star with its tiny pentagon, and so forth.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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