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pentagram
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pentagram \Pen"ta*gram\, n. [Gr. ?, neut. of ? having five
lines. See Penta-, and -gram.]
A pentacle or a pentalpha. ``Like a wizard pentagram.''
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.
WordNet
n. a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon [syn: pentacle]
Wikipedia
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha or pentangle or a star pentagon) is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes.
The word pentagram comes from the Greek word πεντάγραμμον (pentagrammon), from πέντε (pente), "five" + γραμμή (grammē), "line". The word " pentacle" is sometimes used synonymously with "pentagram" The word pentalpha is a learned modern (17th-century) revival of a post-classical Greek name of the shape.
A pentagram is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes.
Pentagram may also refer to:
- Pentagram (video game), a 1986 video game in the Sabre Man series
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Pentagram (band), an American doom metal band
- Relentless, an album initially released under the name Pentagram
- Pentagram (design studio), a graphic design studio
- Pentagram (Indian band), an Indian rock band started in 1993
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Pentagram Chile, a Thrash/Death metal band started in 1985
- Pentagram (Pentagram album), an album by this band
- Mezarkabul, a Turkish metal band also known as Pentagram
- Pentagram (Mezarkabul album), released in 1990
- Pentagram (Gorgoroth album), released in 1994
- "Pentagram," a song by Prefuse 73 from the 2003 album One Word Extinguisher
- "Pentagram," a song by Cake from the 1994 album Motorcade of Generosity
- Pentagramm, the German title of The First Power (1990), an American horror movie
- The pentagram map, a geometrical construction defined for polygons
- Pentagram, a children's novel series by Anthony Horowitz
- Pentagram (record label), an American record label of the early 1970s
Pentagram is a ZX Spectrum and MSX video game released by Ultimate Play The Game in . It is the fourth in the Sabreman series, following on from his adventures in Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde and Knight Lore. Similarly to Knight Lore it uses the isometric Filmation engine. The game was written by either Tim and Chris Stamper or a U.S. Gold programming team (see the main article for the reason for this confusion).
Pentagram is an American heavy metal band from Alexandria, Virginia, most famous as one of the pioneers of heavy metal, and the subgenre of doom metal in particular. The band was prolific in the underground scene of the 1970s, producing many demos and rehearsal tapes, but did not release a full-length album until reforming in the early 1980s with an almost completely new lineup. Throughout the band's history the only constant member has been vocalist Bobby Liebling. The revolving lineup of Pentagram has featured many well respected musicians in the local doom metal scene, with members spending time in other acts such as Raven, The Obsessed, Place of Skulls, Internal Void, Spirit Caravan, among many others.
Pentagram is a design studio that was founded in 1972 by Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange, and Mervyn Kurlansky in Needham Road, West London, UK. They now have offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Austin and Berlin.
Pentagram is the debut studio album by Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth, released on 12 October 1994 by Embassy Productions. It followed the band's two demo cassettes, A Sorcery Written in Blood and Promo '94. It was the only album to feature Samoth on bass and Goat Pervertor on drums.
Pentagram is a four piece Indian rock/electronica band started in 1994 in Mumbai, India. Regarded as one of the pioneers of original Indian independent music, the band has received major recognition.
Pentagram is fronted by Vishal Dadlani (one half of the film music producing duo Vishal-Shekhar) with Randolph Correia on guitars, Clyde D'souza on guitars, Papal Mane on bass and Shiraz Bhattacharya on drums. All of whom have recently been actively involved in the Bollywood music business.
Pentagram is the first compilation album of Chilean metal band Pentagram, independently released first in Chile in 2000 and two years later in The Netherlands as a limited edition LP of 500 Copies vinilo. Format was the first album launched the group after their last demo in 1991 entitled White Hell, 5 and consists of songs recorded live and study in 1987.
In April 2008, the Chilean edition of Rolling Stone ranked the album as the 47th best album of all time Chile.
Usage examples of "pentagram".
This time, when she glanced up, Jill could see the ward, a glowing sphere offeree capping the temple compound, all marked with strange sigils and flaming pentagrams.
Drawing and redrawing the circles, triangles, rhomboids, pentagrams, rectangles, sine curves and twisted ovals of infinity, they smoothed them away once again, and began again.
They used it in their architecture and pyramids, in their Pythagorean pentagram and Fibonacci sequence.
There they stood in their pentagrams, staring at that huge globe representing Akahlar, the hubs brightly glowing against the gray, semi-transparent skin of the rest, and something was happening.
Various items were found in his room, including a funeral register upon which he had drawn a pentagram and upside-down crosses and had copied spells.
The pale silver dome covered fully an acre, and it was marked at the four cardinal points and the zenith by flaming pentagrams traced in different colors and set round with the sigils of the elements.
Then they threw some pentagrams around and copied runes out of a book.
It is a complicated matter of runes and pentagrams, fragrant herbs and words of power, which I will not describe to you because it would permanently unhinge your already weak mind, old fellow.
Every sunset, when the tide of the element of Water began to flow on the astral, and at midnight, when that gave way to Earth, and again at dawn, when the Aethyr burgeoned, the two dweomermen made a magical sphere of blue light all round the dun and set it with seals in the shape of flaming pentagrams.
There arranged in all their splendour round the pentagram, were the Kings of the Elements, Aethyr, Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, each a pillar and a blaze of many-coloured light pulsating at a point of the star.
Anders usually has us sketching something or other: pentagrams, north/south apogees…you name it, we’ve traced it.
The Inverted Pentagram --- Baphomet --- the Hermaphrodite fully grown --- begets himself on himself as V again.
Abercrombie was chalking a pentagram on the floor while a sputtering Malzius had been deputized to sterilize a pocket knife with match.
This is what you might call the all-purpose pentagram - drawn this way it always has a positive influence.
He gestured to the chalk lines at his feet, to indicate that he might not step outside the protection of the pentagram.