polygon

See also Polygon

English

Pronunciation

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

• See Wikisaurus:polygon

Hyponyms

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Meronyms

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Translations

plane figure bounded by straight edges

• Afrikaans: poligoon (af)
• Albanian: shumëkëndësh (sq)
• Ancient Greek: πολύγωνον (polygonon) n
• Arabic: مضلع (ar) (mḍl`)
• Aragonese: poligono (an) m
• Armenian: բազմանկյուն (hy) (bazmankyun) 
• Asturian: polígonu (ast) m
• Basque: poligono (eu)
• Bengali: বহুভুজ (bn)
• Bulgarian: многоъгълник (bg) (poligon) m , многоъгълник (bg) m (mnogoǎgǎlnik)
• Catalan: polígon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多邊形 (duō biān xíng), 多角形

  Cantonese: 多邊形 (do1 bin1 jing4)

• Chuvash: нумай кĕтеслĕх
• 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) (pentakontagoni)
• German: Vieleck (de) n, Polygon (de) n
• Greek: πολύγωνο (el) (polýgono) n 
• Guaraní: apyeta (gn)
• Gujarati: બહુભુજ (gu) (bahubhuja)
• Haitian Creole: poligòn
• Hebrew: מצולע (he) (metsulá) m, פוליגון (he) (poligón) m
• Hindi: बहुभुज (hi) (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 (lv) m
• Lithuanian: daugiakampis (lt) m
• Low German: veeleck (nds)
• Malayalam: ബഹുഭുജം (ml)
• Manx: yl-lhiatteean (gv) m
• Marathi: बहुकोण (mr) (bahukoṇa)
• Moksha: lamuzha, kudnae
• Norwegian: polygon (no)
• Persian: چندضلعی (fa)
• Polish: wielokąt (pl) m, wielobok (pl)
• Portuguese: polígono (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬਹੁਭੁਜ (pa) (bahubhuja)
• Quechua: manchay chinruyuj
• Romanian: poligon (ro)
• Russian: многоугольник (ru) (mnogougol'nik) 
• Sanskrit: बहुकोणः (sa) (bahukoṇa)
• Scottish Gaelic: poileagan (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: mnogokut (sh) m, mnogougao (sh) m, višekut (sh) m, višeugao (sh) m, poligon (sh) m
• Slovak: mnohouholník (sk)
• Slovene: mnogokotnik (sl)
• Spanish: polígono (es) m
• Swahili: pembenyingi (sw)
• Swedish: polygon (sv) c, månghörning (sv) c
• Tamil: பல்கோணம் (ta)
• Tatar: nüeş (tt)
• Telugu: బహుభుజి (te) (bahubhuji)
• Thai: รูปหลายเหลี่ยม (th)
• Turkish: çokgen (tr)
• Ukrainian: багатокутник (uk) (bahatokutnyk)
• 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
• polygonality
• polygonhood
• polygonness

See also

• polyhedron

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Swedish

Noun

polygon c

1. 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