decagon
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Most of the list came from the state eighth grade curriculum: barometer, decagon, perpendicular .
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
This side being known the decagon can be constructed, and if the vertices are joined alternately, leaving out half their number, we obtain the regular pentagon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The story of the Shamash shum ukin revolt is continued by Cylinder C, a decagon, whose form points to the fact that it is a fuller edition.
From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
But the children wanted to know all the names, taking pleasure in learning even 54 the most difficult, such as trapezium, and decagon.
From Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Montessori, Maria
Below the arches are the chapels which surround the decagon in symmetrical fashion.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
Of nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly; as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
A. Because it has ten sides and ten angles, and there are both regular and irregular decagons.
From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Wilderspin, Samuel
