decagon

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Most of the list came from the state eighth grade curriculum: barometer, decagon, perpendicular .

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

The plan of the church was a decagon, within which six composite columns in the centre supported six semi-circular vaults.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

They are not circular, but form the sides of an irregular decagon.

From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Optic, Oliver

The Pantheon and the so-called Temple of Minerva Medica at Rome are early examples of the first variety, the first circular, the second a decagon in plan.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

The rotunda, or decagon, so reminiscent of Aix-la-Chapelle, dates from a period contemporary therewith, so far as its lower walls are concerned, but the upper portions are of the twelfth century, at least.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)