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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
octagon
noun
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▪ An ambulatory round the central octagon joins together the four chapels of the smaller ones.
▪ At four corners are smaller octagons, replicas in design of the large one and all very tall.
▪ Here, the old central tower over the crossing was replaced by the unique octagon and lantern.
▪ Loops of wire pressed octagons into her face, just below the hairline, imprinting a headdress of chains.
▪ The big trap in dealing with the Duveen Galleries is the centre octagon.
▪ The result should be a perfect octagon.
▪ This main octagon is the central chamber or nave.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Octagon

Octagon \Oc"ta*gon\, n. [Gr. ? eight-cornered; 'okta- (for 'oktw` eight) + ? an angle: cf. F. cctogone.]

  1. (Geom.) A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.

  2. Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles.

    Regular octagon, one in which the sides are all equal, and the angles also are all equal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
octagon

1650s, from Latin octagonos, from Greek oktagononos, literally "eight-angled," from okta- comb. form of okto "eight" (see eight) + gonia "angle," related to gony "knee" (see knee (n.)). Also octogon (1650s), from French octogone.

Wiktionary
octagon

n. 1 (context geometry English) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles. 2 (context martial arts usually capitalized English) The arena for mixed martial arts, particularly as trademarked by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate%20Fighting%20Championship.

WordNet
octagon

n. an eight-sided polygon

Wikipedia
Octagon

In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον oktágōnon, "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.

A regular octagon has Schläfli symbol {8} and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t{4}, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t{8} is a hexadecagon, t{16}.

Octagon (Bathory album)

Octagon is the eighth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Bathory. It was released in October 1995, through Black Mark Production. It continues the retro thrash metal style of the previous album, Requiem. It was reissued in 2003, with the first two tracks combined and "Winds of Mayhem" outro added.

Octagón

Juan Escalera (born March 27, 1961) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler) better known as Octagón. He is best known for working for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), having worked for the company since it was founded in 1992. In 2011 he was inducted into the promotion's Hall of Fame. Octagón formed a tag team with El Hijo Del Santo to take on Los Gringos Locos ( Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr) in a double mask versus hair match on the first pay-per-view put on by a Mexican wrestling promotion to air in the United States. Over the years the Octagón gimmick has spawned a Mascot called Octagoncito and an "Evil clone" known as Pentagón. In 2014, Escalera quit AAA.

Octagon (disambiguation)

An octagon is an eight-sided polygon. Octagon may also refer to:

Octagon (String Trio of New York album)

Octagon is an album by American jazz group the String Trio of New York recorded in 1992 for the Italian Black Saint label.

Octagon (sports agency)

Octagon is the global sports and entertainment content marketing arm of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE:IPG)

Octagon (Ortigas Center)

The Octagon is a multi-purpose conference centre and business venue in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. Situated within the business center of Ortigas, it rises up to 20 floors high and is the biggest home for Teleperformance support in the Philippines.

Octagon (Dilate album)

Octagon is the second studio album by the ambient band Dilate. It was released on June 24, 1997 on Hypnotic Records.

Usage examples of "octagon".

Felix Rey, young interne of the hospital of Arles, was a short, thickset man with an octagonal head and a weed of black hair shooting up from the top of the octagon.

Sarra felt her hands clench as Ollia Bekke, standing within the compass octagon, lifted both hands waist-high and conjured a crimson sphere, a Battle Globe.

A fleeting glance over her shoulder confirmed that her injured duelist had indeed vanished into the night, just as magically as he had appeared at her side in the Octagon room.

After a half deck of Blind Tiger, four blue octagons, and three squirts from an amdex haler, his eyeballs were threatening to revolve but he was on his feet and motoring.

Just a mile and a half away from Bara village, Octagon was storing thousands of pounds of methyl isocyanate in their plant.

Grandfather had been working on a new cushion for her just before she left for Ryka Court: Feiran Leaf Crown, Halvos Feathers, Vekke Circled Triangle, and Ostin Oak Tree quartered in the middle of an Ambrai Octagon.

United Planets employment and then working for the organization, Ronny Bronston had never been in the Octagon Building.

Their lands were in the far north of the Shir and they attended the Octagon Court only when ordered.

Octagon, where Dolley was attempting to restore a semblance of normalcy to the official life of the devastated city.

She had been seen he said, in Newark, Ohio, touring the municipal golf course at Octagon State Memorial in the company of a swaggering red-haired archaeologist named Kent Zacharias, also a dead, formerly a specialist in the mound-building Hopewellian cultures of Ohio Valley.

As if she had anticipated everything, set these Wards and spells because she had knowledge of what might or could or would happen that night in the Octagon Court.

One night she went with Winton to the Octagon, where Daphne Wing was still performing.

That opposing OCTAGON in the game got you into real-world trouble was a much chancier theory.

Me All Over Mable, and the newsstand clerk at the Octagon says he expects to sell a thousand copies.

OCTAGON the giant, supercomplex and daily growing network of machines, the megasystem comprising the main computer and data processing systems of North America.