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polygon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polygon \Pol"y*gon\, n. [Gr. poly`gwnos polygonal; poly`s many + gwni`a angle: cf. F. polygone.] (Geom.) A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any figure having many angles.
Polygon of forces (Mech.), a polygonal figure, the sides of which, taken successively, represent, in length and direction, several forces acting simultaneously upon one point, so that the side necessary to complete the figure represents the resultant of those forces. Cf. Parallelogram of forces, under Parallelogram.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geometry English) A plane figure bounded by straight edges. 2 (context geometry English) The boundary of such a figure. 3 (context geometry more generally English) A figure comprising vertex and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly. 4 (context geometry English) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.
WordNet
n. a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides [syn: polygonal shape]
Wikipedia
The Multinational Aircrew Electronic Warfare Tactics Facility Polygone - POLYGON is an Electronic Warfare Tactics Range located on the border between Germany and France. It is a tri-national facility operated by France, Germany and the United States.
Polygons are used in computer graphics to compose images that are three-dimensional in appearance. Usually (but not always) triangular, polygons arise when an object's surface is modeled, vertices are selected, and the object is rendered in a wire frame model. This is quicker to display than a shaded model; thus the polygons are a stage in computer animation. The polygon count refers to the number of polygons being rendered per frame.
Polygon may refer to:
In mathematics and computing:
- Polygon, a geometric figure
- Simple polygon, a single contiguous closed region, the more common usage of "polygon"
- Star polygon, a star-like polygon
- Polygon (computer graphics), a representation of a polygon in computer graphics
other meanings:
- Polygon (website), a video game news network
- POLYGON, an electronic warfare tactics range between Germany and France
- Polygon Books, an imprint of Birlinn Limited
- POLYGON experiment, an experiment in physical oceanography which established the existence of mesoscale eddies
- Polygon Pictures, Japanese 3DCG anime studio
- Polygon Records, a 1950s record company
- Semipalatinsk Test Site, a nuclear test site near Semey, Kazakhstan
- The Polygon, Southampton, a district in the city of Southampton
- Polygon, an imprint of Scottish publisher Birlinn Limited
- Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium, site of the Battle of Passchendaele in World War I
- Patterned ground#Polygons, geological formations created by permafrost expanding and contracting
- Chemical compound also known as sodium triphosphate.
- Polygon (animation film) a 1977 Soviet animation film
- Polygon Man, the former mascot for the Sony PlayStation in North America
Polygon or Firing Range is a 1977 Soviet animation science fiction short film.
Polygon is an American video game website that publishes news, culture, reviews, and videos. It launched as Vox Media's third property on October 24, 2012. The site was built over the course of ten months, and its 16-person founding staff included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites Joystiq, Kotaku and The Escapist. Vox produced a documentary series about the founding of the site. The site sought to distinguish itself from competitors by focusing on the stories of the people behind the games instead of the games themselves. They also produced long-form magazine-style feature articles, invested in video content, and chose to allow their review scores to be updated as the game changed. The site was built to HTML5 responsive standards with a pink color scheme, and their advertisements focused on direct sponsorship of specific kinds of content.
Usage examples of "polygon".
Our physicians have discovered that the small and tender sides of an infant Polygon of the higher class can be fractured, and his whole frame re-set, with such exactness that a Polygon of two or three hundred sides sometimes--by no means always, for the process is attended with serious risk--but sometimes overleaps two or three hundred generations, and as it were double at a stroke, the number of his progenitors and the nobility of his descent.
We define a diagonal as a line drawn between nonadjacent angles in a regular plane polygon.
The Ringwall was an irregular polygon of mountainous cliffs, several kilometers across, above which the lower atmosphere seemed always to be hazy enough to blur detail.
Even to me, a Mathematician of no mean standing, and the Grandfather of two most hopeful and perfectly regular Hexagons, to find myself in the midst of a crowd of rotating Polygons of the higher classes, is occasionally very perplexing.
Rydell had liked most was where you just went in and sort of sculpted things out of nothing, out of that cloud of pixels or polygons or whatever they were, and you could see what other people were doing at the same time, and maybe even put your stuff together with theirs, if you both wanted to.
By a judicious use of this Law of Nature, the Polygons and Circles are almost always able to stifle sedition in its very cradle, taking advantage of the irrepressible and boundless hopefulness of the human mind.
The meanest mathematician in Spaceland will readily believe me when I assert that the problems of life, which present themselves to the well-educated--when they are themselves in motion, rotating, advancing or retreating, and at the same time attempting to discriminate by the sense of sight between a number of Polygons of high rank moving in different directions, as for example in a ball-room or conversazione--must be of a nature to task the angularity of the most intellectual, and amply justify the rich endowments of the Learned Professors of Geometry, both Static and Kinetic, in the illustrious University of Wentbridge, where the Science and Art of Sight Recognition are regularly taught to large classes of the ELITE of the States.
Year by year the Soldiers and Artisans began more vehemently to assert--and with increasing truth--that there was no great difference between them and the very highest class of Polygons, now that they were raised to an equality with the latter, and enabled to grapple with all the difficulties and solve all the problems of life, whether Statical or Kinetical, by the simple process of Colour Recognition.
A whole army of Polygons, who turned out to fight as private soldiers, was utterly annihilated by a superior force of Isosceles Triangles-- the Squares and Pentagons meanwhile remaining neutral.
Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find the Nobleman of that position in society, who has neglected to place his first-born in the Circular Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium before he has attained the age of a month.
I will make her sweets like globes of crystal, like cubes of jade, like polygons of ruby.
As the number of the sides increases, a Polygon approximates to a Circle.
Set them at the points of an equilateral polygon and give them equal angular velocities about their center of mass.
One of them involved several flights of back stairs through the Polygon, a secret panel beside the fireplace in the Junior Parlor (which everyone in the Citadel knew about except the dairymaids and Silvorglim), and thence across the bridge to the lowest floor of the Harlot.
A parade of large, cryptic characters, pictograms consisting of undulating lines, asymmetrical polygons, crosshatches, and intersecting and broken shapes, coalesced in the air above the table.