hectogon

English

Etymology

From hecto- +‎ -gon.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hectogon (plural hectogons)

1. (geometry) A polygon having a hundred sides.
2. (computing) An individual processor in some parallel processing systems.

Quotations

• 1992 The processing elements ("hectogons") are connected in a hexagonal mesh . . - J.D. Becker, I. Eisele, F.W. Muendemann (eds) - Parallelism, Learning, Evolution: Workshop on Evolutionary Models and Strategies

Synonyms

• 100-gon
• hectagon

Translations

geometry

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百邊形／百边形 (bǎibiānxíng)

• Finnish: 100-kulmio, satakulmio
• German: Hunderteck (de)
• Japanese: 百角形 (hyakukakukei)
• Korean: 백각형 (baekgakhyeong)
• Polish: stukąt m
• Russian: стоугольник (ru) m (stougolʹnik)
• Spanish: hectágono (es)

References

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