Definition of Dodecagon

1. Noun. A twelve-sided polygon.

Generic synonyms: Polygon, Polygonal Shape

Definition of Dodecagon

1. n. A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.

Definition of Dodecagon

1. Noun. (geometry) a polygon with twelve edges and twelve angles ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dodecagon

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Medical Definition of Dodecagon

1. A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles. Origin: Gr. Twelve + angle: cf. F. Dodecagone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodecagon

doddery
doddier
doddies
doddiest
dodding
doddle
doddles
doddy
dodeca-
dodecadactylum
dodecadic
dodecadodecahedra
dodecadodecahedron
dodecadodecahedrons
dodecaedron
dodecagon (current term)
dodecagonal
dodecagons
dodecagrid
dodecagynia
dodecagynous
dodecahedra
dodecahedral
dodecahedrane
dodecahedron
dodecahedrons
dodecahydrate
dodecahydrates
dodecamer
dodecameric

Literary usage of Dodecagon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. T. Sundara Row's Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding by Tandalam Sundara Rao (1901)
"THE DECAGON AND THE dodecagon 99. Figs. 36, 37 show how a regular decagon, and a regular dodecagon, may be obtained from a pentagon and hexagon respectively ..."

2. T. Sundara Row's Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding by Tandalam Sundara Rao (1901)
"THE DECAGON AND THE dodecagon 99. Figs. 36, 37 show how a regular decagon, and a regular dodecagon, may be obtained from a pentagon and hexagon respectively ..."

3. T. Sundara Row's Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding by Tandalam Sundara Rao (1901)
"THE DECAGON AND THE dodecagon 99. Figs. 36, 37 show how a regular decagon, and a regular dodecagon, may be obtained from a pentagon and hexagon respectively ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on the Science of Land and Engineering Surveying by Henry S. Merrett, George William Usill (1885)
"In a given circle to inscribe an equilateral triangle, an hexagon, or a dodecagon, Fig. 44. For the equilateral triangle : From any point A as a centre, ..."

5. Pocket Encyclopedia, Or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, and Polite by Edward Augustus Kendall (1811)
"of any dodecagon will give its area. " To inscribe a dodecagon in a given circle :" carry the radius six times round the circumference, which •will divide ..."

6. Solutions of the Examples in Hall and Knight's Elementary Trigonometry by Henry Sinclair Hall, Samuel Ratcliffe Knight (1905)
"area of dodecagon = 60 cosec 72°=60 x 1-0515 = 63-09 sq. ft. 9. Let the perimeters of pentagon and decagon be denoted by 10« and 10b respectively. ..."

7. Practical Geometry for the Architect, Engineer, Surveyor and Mechanic by Edward Wyndham Tarn (1882)
"Draw the chords AE, EF, FC, &c., and the dodecagon is inscribed in -the given ... About a given circle to circumscribe a regular dodecagon—Let 0 be the ..."

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