Definition of Enneagon

1. n. A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

Definition of Enneagon

1. Noun. (geometry) A polygon with nine sides; a nonagon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Enneagon

1. a nonagon [n -S] - See also: nonagon

Medical Definition of Enneagon

1. A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon. Origin: Gr. Nine + corner, angle: cf. Enneagone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enneagon

enmuffle
enmuffled
enmuffles
enmuffling
enmure
enmured
enmures
enmuring
ennage
ennages
ennation
ennea-
ennead
enneadic
enneads
enneagon (current term)
enneagonal
enneagons
enneagram
enneagrams
enneagynous
enneahedral
enneandria
enneandrous
enneapetalous
enneastyle
enneatical
ennemie
enneract

Literary usage of Enneagon

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

1. The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, A. M. (Alistair Matheson) Duncan, Eric J. Aiton, Judith Veronica Field (1997)
"Concerning the enneagon, whose number of sides, 9, is the square of the first odd Prime, namely three, there has been a contest among Geometers, ..."

2. Geometry, Plane, Solid, and Spherical, in Six Books: To which is Added, in by Pierce Morton (1830)
"Still there are many regular figures, as the heptagon, enneagon, ... For a second example, let us take the enneagon, or, as it is sometimes called, ..."

3. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"If AB be the srde (a) of an enneagon or ... For the enneagon AC- = QAB'2, whence BC2 = 8AB* or approximately ^^/-AB2, and BC = \7-a; therefore (area of ..."

4. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1891)
"The foregoing values show that 23 and 1234 (which belong to the hexagon and the enneagon) divide by c (which belongs to the triangle), and that 234 (which ..."

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