hectogon

English

Etymology

hecto- +‎ -gon

Noun

hectogon (plural hectogons)

1. (geometry) a polygon having a hundred sides
2. (computing) an individual processor in some parallel processing systems

Quotations

• 1992 The processing elements ("hectogons") are connected in a hexagonal mesh . . - J.D. Becker, I. Eisele, F.W. Muendemann (eds) - Parallelism, Learning, Evolution: Workshop on Evolutionary Models and Strategies

Synonyms

• hectagon

Translations

geometry

• Finnish: 100-kulmio, satakulmio
• German: Hunderteck (de)
• Polish: stukąt m
• Russian: стоугольник (ru) m (stougolʹnik)
• Spanish: hectágono (es)

References

Mathworld