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Definition of Decagons
1. decagon [n] - See also: decagon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decagons
Literary usage of Decagons
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)
"If you really wish to continue the pattern, certain irregularities must be
admitted, two decagons must be combined, two sides being removed from each of ..."
2. The Elements of Geometry by Walter Nelson Bush, John Bernard Clarke (1909)
"If the sides of three regular decagons are 3 ft., 4 ft., and 12 ft., respectively,
what is the side of a regular octagon whose area is equal to the sum of ..."
3. An Introduction to Solid Geometry and to the Study of Crystallography by Nathaniel John Larkin (1820)
"very similar to the transition of the cube into the octahedron; the principal
difference is, that there are pentagons instead of squares, and decagons ..."
4. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"... leaving triangles, and P8 by leaving hexagons, in th faces; (5) from the
dodecahedron, P7 by leaving pentagons and P, by leaving decagons in the faces. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"If only ' situations ' and plights were regular decagons ! But they all have so
many facets, and the probity of the novelist is in being blind to none of ..."
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