decagon

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

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

To construct a regular pentagon, we find it convenient first to construct a regular decagon.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

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)

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

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