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octagonal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
octagonal \oc*tag"o*nal\, a. Having eight sides and eight angles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context geometry English) Shaped like an octagon, in having eight sides and eight angles. alt. (context geometry English) Shaped like an octagon, in having eight sides and eight angles.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or shaped like an octagon [syn: octangular]
Wikipedia
Octagonal (foaled 8 October 1992) is a retired champion New Zealand-bred, Australian raced Thoroughbred racehorse, also known as 'The Big O' or 'Occy'. He was by the champion sire Zabeel, out of the champion broodmare Eight Carat, who also produced Group One winners Mouawad, Kaapstad, Diamond Lover and (Our) Marquise.
Trained by John Hawkes, Octagonal made his debut late in 1994, and was crowned the Australian Champion Two Year Old on the strength of his autumn campaign, which comprised wins in the Todman Trial and AJC Sires Produce Stakes and close seconds in the STC Golden Slipper and AJC Champagne Stakes.
As a three-year-old, Octagonal won seven of his eleven starts, and took his record to 10 wins from 16 starts. In addition to beating a high-standard crop in Sydney's three-year-old autumn triple crown - the Canterbury and Rosehill Guineas and the Australian Derby - Octagonal won the two richest weight-for-age races on the Australian calendar, the W S Cox Plate and the Mercedes Classic. With earnings of just short of A$4 million, Octagonal was voted the 1996 Australian Champion Three Year Old, Australian Horse of the Year, and remains the last horse to have won the triple crown. The Victoria (spring) and Australian Derby (autumn) double eluded him, however, as he was narrowly defeated by Nothin' Leica Dane in the Victoria Derby.
Octagonal returned to the track as a four-year-old, but his win the Underwood Stakes was the only highlight of a spring campaign that saw him unplaced in six of his seven starts. Meanwhile, the horses who had finished second to him in the triple crown - Saintly and Filante - won three races each, including the Epsom Handicap, the W S Cox Plate (where they were first and second), and the Melbourne Cup. Octagonal's final campaign, during the autumn, was more consistent, and featured Group One wins in consecutive starts in the Chipping Norton Stakes, Australian Cup, and the Mercedes Classic. At his final start, he was runner-up in the AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes; a feat coincidentally emulated in the farewell of his champion son, Lonhro, seven years later.
Octagonal retired to stud after 28 starts with a record of 14 wins (10 Group 1), 7 seconds (6 in GI or GII races) and a third. He ended his racing career with a stakes tally of A$5,892,231, the highest of any galloper in Australasia to that point.
Octagonal refers to the property of being like an octagon.
Octagonal may also refer to:
- Octagonal (horse) (1992-), New Zealand racehorse that raced in Australia
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Octagonal tiling
- Truncated octagonal tiling
- Truncated order-4 octagonal tiling
- Order-6 octagonal tiling
- Order-8 octagonal tiling
- Truncated order-8 octagonal tiling
- Snub octagonal tiling
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Octagonal number
- Centered octagonal number
- Octagonal polyhedra
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Octagonal prism
- Octagonal antiprism
- Octagonal prismatic prism
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Octagonal bipyramid
- Octagonal trapezohedron
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Octagonal prism
- Octagonal polychoron
- Octagonal antiprismatic prism
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List of octagonal buildings and structures
- Octagonal barn (disambiguation)
- Octagonal house
- Octagonal School (disambiguation)
- Octagonal Building (disambiguation)
- Octagonal deadhouse
Usage examples of "octagonal".
Next to it was an octagonal room, the walls, the ceiling, and the floor of which were entirely covered with splendid Venetian glass, arranged in such a manner as to reflect on all sides every position of the amorous couple enjoying the pleasures of love.
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.
Facing the Duomo is the baptistery, which at first served as a church, a sort of octagonal temple surmounted by a cupola, built, doubtless, after the model of the Pantheon of Rome, and which, according to the testimony of a contemporary bishop, already in the eighth century projected upward the pompous rotundities of its imperial forms.
Octagonal in form, clad in white and green marble, decorated with rounded arches and stately columns and pilasters, all crowned with a white marble roof that conceals the dome below, the Baptistery is an exquisite example of Tuscan Romanesque architecture.
Pattie and Lense now beheld was octagonal in shape and painted in a dark black that shone through the thick dust covering it.
And definitely no TVs, stereos, marcasite jewelry, or octagonal gold lockets.
The marketwoman looked on in silence, and there were witnesses all around: the octagonal fortress tower, with its latest subtenant, the overcrowded exchange bureau, and next to it the broad-beamed covered market that seemed bloated with mist, and the gloomy Dominican Church of St.
Chekov and Tuvok, Sulu entered the room and headed toward his customary chair, at one side of the octagonal table.
He was driving an octagonal oak treenail into the gushing bolt hole with accurate smashing hits, the water cutting off to a trickle, then nothing.
This made for a supremely responsive machine that held him in good stead as he zigzagged his way around terrified people and octagonal ferroconcrete columns set in a double line down the length of the mall.
The Count halted, putting down my bags, closed the door, and crossing the room, opened another door, which led into a small octagonal room lit by a single lamp, and seemingly without a window of any sort.
With a courteous bow, he opened for me himself the door to the octagonal room, and I entered my bedroom.
Laurence had begun to think their first establishment an unusual case, but their residence that night in the city of Wuchang dwarfed it into insignificance: eight great pavilions arranged in a symmetric octagonal shape, joined by narrower enclosed halls, around a space deserving to be called a park more than a garden.
Deliriously, ravenously, Richard sent his mind back to the napkin-scarved bottles of old champagne tipped his way by tuxedoed athletes (even the help was hip, was hot) and bims in ra-ra skirts offering canapes made of dodo G-spots and hummingbird helmets, in the octagonal library, where he had mingled with the knowers and philosopher kings of the living wordwhile all the agents and editors and publishers cowered in their nimbus of pelf and preferment: men and women who shunned him.
The massive architecture, with its carved columns and doors, and undulating thatched roofs supported on complex wooden bracketry, dwarfed the priests who stood around the Buddha Hall, five-story pagoda, octagonal sutra repository, and the temple bell in its wooden cage.