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Dodecagon   Listen
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Dodecagon  n.  (Geom.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dodecagon" Quotes from Famous Books



... towers. You are acquainted, of course, with the modern rule of giving the bastions a salient angle of fifteen degrees in excess of half the angle of the figure in all figures from the square up to the dodecagon? Well, Fort Amitie being a square—or rather a right-angled quadrilateral—the half of its angle will be forty-five degrees; add fifteen, and we get sixty; which is as nearly as possible the salience of our flanking towers; only they happen to be round. So far, so ...
— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Dodecagon" :   polygon, polygonal shape



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