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Definition of Octagons
1. octagon [n] - See also: octagon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octagons
Literary usage of Octagons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"The case is in plan a series of four octagons, one rising above the other, crowned
by a little dome, on which the statue of America holds Amazonian guard. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"10, " Can you place four octagons to meet in one point and to overlap each other
to an equal extent ? " delight the eye by beauty of form, and teach the ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"... AND (ABOVE THE LUNETTE) THREE OF THE octagons top," the Man is enthroned with
his servant Science, and he answers the old query, "And what is man? ..."
4. Industrial Drawing: Comprising the Description and Uses of Drawing by Dennis Hart Mahan, Dwinel F. Thompson (1905)
"To represent a pavement made up of octagons and squares. (PI. I.** Fig. 4.)
Divide the surface first into squares ; then construct an octagon in one of ..."
5. A Manual of Drafting Instruments and Operations: In Four Divisions by Samuel Edward Warren (1865)
"32 is composed of octagons and small squares. The FIG. 32. dotted lines indicate
fully enough the manner of construction, and Bhow that every point of each ..."
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