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Definition of Nonagons
1. nonagon [n] - See also: nonagon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonagons
Literary usage of Nonagons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1889)
"... two nonagons and a single triangle among all the one thousand stony illustrations
of geometry that make up the vast structure. Specimens of every style ..."
2. Handbook for Travellers in Ireland by John Murray (Firm) (1878)
"... that of 3- sided pillars there is but one, and of nonagons but 3 on the whole
platform, while pentagons and hexagons are universal, and octagons, ..."
3. The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With Selections from His Correspondence and by Lewis Campbell, William Garnett (1884)
"I have got all figures up to nonagons, triangles of all kinds, and irregular chips.
I have made a pattern for a tesselated window of unannealed glass in the ..."
4. A Grammar of Colouring, Applied to Decorative Painting and the Arts by George Field (1903)
"When a certain amount of power in using the brush has thus been attained, figures
having a greater number of angles, such as octagons, nonagons, &c., ..."
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