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Definition of Pentagon
1. Noun. A government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
2. Noun. The United States military establishment.
Generic synonyms: Bureaucracy, Bureaucratism
3. Noun. A five-sided polygon.
Definition of Pentagon
1. n. A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles.
Definition of Pentagon
1. Proper noun. the headquarters of the United States of America's Department of Defense. ¹
2. Noun. (geometry) A polygon with five sides and five angles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pentagon
1. a five-sided polygon [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pentagon
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentagon
Literary usage of Pentagon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Virginia Handbook by Blair Howard (2001)
"The Pentagon The Pentagon is, of course, the home of the United States Department
of Defense ... Tours of the Pentagon are conducted every hour on the hour, ..."
2. Projective Geometry by Linnaeus Wayland Dowling (1917)
"The hexagon then degenerates into a pentagon with the tangent at one vertex. ...
the vertices of any simple pentagon are points of a given curve of second ..."
3. Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association (1848)
"Pentagon 0 Wall 0 21. Rectangle 0 Wall 0 22. Pentagon 2 Wall 2 23. Pentagon 0
Wall 2 24 ... Pentagon 2 Wall 2 27. Polygon 1 Wall 0 28. Pentagon 1 Wall 1 29. ..."
4. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1875)
"Again, ID the five triangles outside this pentagon, five other points are taken
at random, one in each, forming when joined another pentagon, ..."
5. Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form by Samuel Colman (1912)
"... The Pentagon Those various geometric forms from which all just proportional
spaces may be produced in the most perfect manner will now be described, ..."
6. Mathematical Questions and Solutions, from "The Educational Times", with edited by Constance I Marks (1899)
"Let ABCDE be the given pentagon. Bisect FH in K, and let K be in CD. AK shall
bisect the pentagon. For AAFK = A AFC and AACK, and A AFC = A ABC. ..."