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-gon

-gon

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A word ending that you add to numbers to name shapes by their angles
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  • In geometry, a hexagon has six angles and is commonly seen in honeycomb structures.

Examples

  • A polygon is a shape with at least three corners.

  • And the complex situation is a bunch of endpoints in the plane and the order is a N gon that's convex.

  • To calculate the area of the polygon, we must know the lengths of all its sides.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

-Gon is an ending from an old Greek word gonia that means 'angle' or 'corner', and you can see it in words like pentagon, hexagon, and decagon. So, adding -gon to a number tells you how many angles or corners a shape has.