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mega- +‎ -gon

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megagon (plural megagons)

  1. (geometry) A polygon with one million sides.
    • 1999, Mark Dugopolski, College Algebra and Trigonometry, page 505:
      Find the constant of proportionality for a decagon, kilogon, and megagon.
    • 2003, Stan Gibilisco, Geometry Demystified:
      There can exist a regular polygon with 1000 sides (this might be called a "regular kilogon"), 1,000,000 sides (a "regular megagon"), or 1,000,000,000 sides (a "regular gigagon").
    • 2007, Arthur Greenberg, From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story:
      A megagon is close to the perfection of a circle — a kind of generational transmutation.

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