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polygon

[pol-ee-gon] / ˈpɒl iˌgɒn /


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The enormous polygon field is the latest in a long series of unexpected discoveries made by Curiosity since it landed on Mars 14 years ago, on Aug. 5, 2012.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

We wander back wet, down to Castillo Square, down to the ghosts of Bar Milano, a stand-in for Bar Torino, and Café Suizo, where the fiesta unravels in insults, a love polygon and fisticuffs.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

A love triangle stretches to encompass more people and form a shifting polygon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

County emergency management worker saved an alert correctly with a narrowly defined polygon in the area near the Kenneth fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025

The Pythagoreans were fascinated by the regular solids, symmetrical three-dimensional objects all of whose sides are the same regular polygon.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Researchers are now studying how ice wedge polygons, a common Arctic landscape feature, influence how water and carbon move toward coastal areas.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2026

Vast polygons mark forest concessions covering 11 million hectares in the DRC, some of which exist only on paper.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

The interface showed purple cow icons confined within red polygons — virtual fences that shock the cattle via collars should they stray.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

But on rare occasions, designers choose to build their interactive worlds not from pixels and polygons but from physical materials like cardboard and clay.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

But we passed under one dead tree, leafless but still standing, and I looked up through its branches, which intersected to fracture the cloudless blue sky into all kinds of irregular polygons.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green


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