polygon

See also Polygon

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpɒlɪɡən/, SAMPA: /"pQlIg@n/
• (US) enPR: pälʹē-gän, IPA: /ˈpɑliɡɑn/, SAMPA: /"pAligAn/

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Etymology

Ancient Greek πολύγωνον (polygōnon), from πολύς (polus, “many”) and γωνία (gōnia, “angle”).

Noun

Wikipedia polygon (plural polygons)

Polygons (sense 1).

1. (geometry) A plane figure bounded by straight edges.
2. (geometry) The boundary of such a figure.
3. (geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
4. (geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.

Hypernyms

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Hyponyms

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Meronyms

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Translations

plane figure bounded by straight edges

Afrikaans: poligoon Albanian: shumëkëndësh Ancient: πολύγωνον (polygonon) n. Arabic: مضلع (ar) (mḍl`) Aragonese: poligono (an) Armenian: բազմանկյուն (bazmankyun) Asturian: polígonu (ast) Basque: poligono (eu) Bengali: বহুভুজ (bn) Bosnian: poligon (bs) Bulgarian: многоъгълник (bg) (poligon) m., многоъгълник (bg) m. Catalan: polígon (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 多邊形 (duō biān xíng), 多角形 Cantonese: 多邊形 (do1 bin1 jing4) Chuvash: нумай кĕтеслĕх Croatian: mnogokut (hr) Czech: mnohoúhelník (cs) m., polygon (cs) Danish: polygon (da) Dutch: veelhoek (nl) m., polygoon (nl) m. Esperanto: plurangulo (eo), plurlatero (eo), poligono (eo) Estonian: hulknurk (et) Faroese: marghyrningur (fo) Finnish: monikulmio (fi), polygoni (fi) French: polygone (fr) m. Friulian: poligon, poligonâl Galician: polígono (gl) Georgian: პენტაკონტაგონი (ka) German: Vieleck (de) n., Polygon (de) n. Greek: πολύγωνο (el) (polýgono) n. Guaraní: apyeta Gujarati: બહુભુજ (bahubhuja) Haitian Creole: poligòn Hebrew: מצולע (he) (metsulá,mṣwl`) m., פוליגון (he) (poligón) m. Hindi: बहुभुज (bahubhuja) Hungarian: poligon (hu), sokszög (hu) Ido: poligono (io)

Irish: polagán (ga) m. Italian: poligono (it) m. Japanese: 多角形 (ja) (たかくけい, takakukei/たかっけい, takakkei); ポリゴン (ja) (porigon) Khmer: ពហុកោណ (km) Korean: 다각형 (ko) Kurdish: pirgoşe (ku) Latvian: daudzstūris m. Lithuanian: daugiakampis (lt) m. Low Saxon: veeleck (nds) Malayalam: ബഹുഭുജം (ml) Manx: yl-lhiatteean (gv) m. Marathi: बहुकोण (bahukoṇa) Moksha: lamuzha, kudnae Norwegian: polygon (no) Polish: wielokąt (pl) m., wielobok (pl) Portuguese: polígono (pt) Punjabi: ਬਹੁਭੁਜ (bahubhuja) Quechua: manchay chinruyuj Romanian: poligon (ro) Russian: многоугольник (ru) (mnogougol'nik) Sanskrit: बहुकोणः (bahukoṇa) Scottish Gaelic: poileagan (gd) Serbian: mnogokut m., mnogougao m., višekut m., višeugao m. Slovak: mnohouholník (sk) Slovene: mnogokotnik (sl) Spanish: polígono (es) m. Swahili: pembenyingi (sw) Swedish: polygon (sv) c. Tamil: பல்கோணம் (ta) Tatar: nüeş Telugu: బహుభుజి (bahubhuji) Thai: รูปหลายเหลี่ยม (th) Turkish: çokgen (tr) Ukrainian: багатокутник (uk) Urdu: کثیرالاضلاع (ur) Vietnamese: đa giác (vi) Volapük: mödalien (vo) Yiddish: פילעק (yi)

Derived terms

• cumulative frequency polygon
• frequency polygon
• funicular polygon
• polygon of forces

Related terms

• polygonal

See also

• polyhedron

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Swedish

Noun

polygon c.

1. a polygon

Declension

Declension of polygon

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	polygon	polygonen	polygoner	polygonerna
genitive	polygons	polygonens	polygoners	polygonernas

See also

• femkant
• fyrhörning
• fyrkant
• hexagon
• kvadrat
• månghörning
• rektangel
• sexkant
• trekant
• triangel