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Pentagonal

Pentagonal \Pen*tag"o*nal\, a. [Cf. F. pentagonal, pentagone, L. pentagonus, pentagonius, Gr. ?.] Having five corners or angles.

Pentagonal dodecahedron. See Dodecahedron, and Pyritohedron.

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pentagonal

a. Of, relating to, or shaped like a pentagon

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pentagonal

adj. of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon [syn: pentangular]

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Usage examples of "pentagonal".

The khaltezoot, or pentagonal dipyramid within will spin and produce an image.

Several pentagonal panels for the exterior of the dodecahedron were hanging from an elevated railroad track.

I could see their skeletons through their scaly hide: hexagonal and pentagonal matrices like geodesic domes, narrowing down to their bulging engines at the tail.

The room was large, with five walls that tapered together in a gothic arch thirty feet above the pentagonal floor.

Each such polyhedron could have common surfaces with other polyhedrons, forming infinite latticeworks based on the pentagonal unit.

The crew pressure vessel was a decahedron of green-anodized aluminum-lithium alloy, with pentagonal viewports of transparent silicon carbide that gave the crew windows that looked ahead, ahead and down, and downward to the left and right.

Shapes hunched among them, low domes, pentagonal upthrusts, helices, congeries.