dodecagon
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- noun
- /ˈdoʊdɪˌkæɡən/
- Specialized
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dodecágono
- The artist used a dodecagon as the base for her sculpture, highlighting its unique geometric qualities.
Examples
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Eight sides? "Heptagon, octagon, dodecagon"—she learned those words as soon as I spoke them.
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So those triangles obviously have a much smaller area than the dodecagons and so on.
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We want something that's more rounded, like hexagons, pentagons, dodecagons, and so on.
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A dodecagon has twelve sides, making it interesting compared to simpler shapes like triangles and squares.
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In geometry class, we learned that a dodecagon can be divided into twelve triangles.
How Many Sides
Surface Forms
Morphology
dodecagon = gon (transparent) = dodeca + gon
The word is transparently formed by combining 'dodeca' meaning twelve and 'gon' meaning angles.
Etymology
Dodecagon comes from Greek parts dodeca- meaning 'twelve' and -gon meaning 'angle'. Think of a 'dozen' for 'twelve' and the everyday word 'angle' to remember the parts. So a dodecagon is a shape with twelve angles and twelve sides.