POLYGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polygon mean? 

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

1. a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A closed plane figure bounded by straight sides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

polygon; polygonal shape

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

plane figure; two-dimensional figure (a two-dimensional shape)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "polygon"):

isogon (an equiangular polygon)

convex polygon (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)

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

quadrangle; quadrilateral; tetragon (a four-sided polygon)

triangle; trigon; trilateral (a three-sided polygon)

pentagon (a five-sided polygon)

hexagon (a six-sided polygon)

heptagon (a seven-sided polygon)

octagon (an eight-sided polygon)

nonagon (a nine-sided polygon)

decagon (a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles)

undecagon (an eleven-sided polygon)

dodecagon (a twelve-sided polygon)

spherical polygon (a figure on the surface of a sphere bounded by arcs of 3 or more great circles)

 Context examples 

A seven-sided polygon.

(Heptagon, NCI Thesaurus)

A six-sided polygon.

(Hexagon, NCI Thesaurus)

A five-sided polygon.

(Pentagon, NCI Thesaurus)

A specific area of interest defined by a sequence of image overlays or a sequence of contours described as a single point (for a point ROI) or more than one point (representing and open or closed polygon).

(Imaging Region of Interest, NCI Thesaurus)

An eight-sided polygon.

(Octagon, NCI Thesaurus)