CONVEX POLYGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convex polygon mean? 

• CONVEX POLYGON (noun)
  The noun CONVEX POLYGON has 1 sense:

1. a polygon such that no side extended cuts any other side or vertex; it can be cut by a straight line in at most two points

  Familiarity information: CONVEX POLYGON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVEX POLYGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A polygon such that no side extended cuts any other side or vertex; it can be cut by a straight line in at most two points

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("convex polygon" is a kind of...):

polygon; polygonal shape (a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides)

Antonym:

concave polygon (a polygon such that there is a straight line that cuts it in four or more points)