Thesaurus:polygon

Thesaurus

polygon

English

Noun

Sense: plane figure bounded by straight edges

Synonyms

• polygon

Hyponyms

Not by number of sides

• square
• rectangle
• rhombus
• parallelogram
• trapezoid
• star polygon

By number of sides

• monogon
• digon
• triangle    [⇒ thesaurus]
• quadrilateral    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pentagon
• hexagon
• heptagon
• octagon
• nonagon
• decagon
• undecagon
• hendecagon
• dodecagon
• tridecagon
• tetradecagon
• quindecagon
• pentadecagon
• hexadecagon
• heptadecagon
• octadecagon
• enneadecagon
• icosagon
• icosihenagon
• icosikaidigon
• icosidigon
• icositrigon
• icositetragon
• icosipentagon
• triacontagon
• triacontadigon
• triacontatetragon
• triacontakaitetragon
• tetracontagon
• tetracontadigon
• tetracontakaihexagon
• pentacontagon
• hexacontagon
• heptacontagon
• octacontagon
• enneacontagon
• enneacontahexagon
• hectogon
• dihectagon
• chiliagon
• myriagon
• megagon
• googolgon

Hypernyms

• knot
• polytope

Meronyms

• edge
• vertex

Various

Adjectives used to describe or select polygons

• equilateral
• equiangular
• regular
• isosceles

Property involved in classification

• number    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Category:Shapes

Further reading

• “244. angularity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.