polygonal
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- adjective
- /pəˈlɪɡənl/
- Specialized
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poligonal
- And at least three posuban resemble the polygonal bastions of forts, complete with crenellation (Fig. 9).
- polygonal cells
Examples
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So that's why we refer to this polygonal chain sometimes as robot arms.
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As reconstructed by Annegret Peschlow-Kondermann, the western screen was a deep, polygonal structure with three bays and a central door.
Academic text (2000) -
So if you have, it's called a simple polygonal piece of paper.
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You can now incorporate polygonal models to draw around.
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On a new layer, create some random design with the Polygonal Lasso Tool.
Blog text (21) -
Their building bricks are capsomers: regular polygonal groupings of capsid proteins.
Academic text (2004) -
Twenty-ton boulders, rough-hewn and polygonal, face the lowest tier, but elsewhere the stones are squared and marble-smooth.
Fiction book (1991) -
The lobes of the Littlecote trefoil are perfectly semicircular inside; only the outside walls of the apses look polygonal or faceted.
Academic text (2000) -
The floristic-physiognomic map can readily be correlated to the aerial photograph from which its polygonal outlines were derived and clearly delineates between areas of grassland and forest.
Academic text (1991) -
The architect designed a building with a stunning polygonal facade that caught everyone's eye.
Compounds
How Many Sides
Surface Forms
Morphology
polygonal = polygon (transparent) = poly + gon + al
This is a regular adjective formation from the noun 'polygon' with the suffix '-al', so the meaning is directly recoverable from the base word.
Etymology
The word polygonal comes from Greek parts poly- meaning 'many' and gonia meaning 'angle'. A polygon is a 'many-angled' shape, so polygonal describes something that has many sides or angles.