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Definition of Pentagonal
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon.
Definition of Pentagonal
1. a. Having five corners or angles.
Definition of Pentagonal
1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or shaped like a pentagon ¹
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Definition of Pentagonal
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentagonal
Literary usage of Pentagonal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"Each of the enlarged faces is intersected by five others; and the resultant fourth
is therefore a pentagonal-dodecahedron, whose general aspect is that of ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"(1) The pentagonal dodecahedrons (fig. 51), bounded by twelve symmetrical pentagons,
vary in general aspect between the cube and the ..."
3. Description of Some New Species of Invertebrates from the Palaeozoic Rocks by Illinois State Museum, Samuel Almond Miller, William Frank Eugene Reed Gurley (1882)
"The first anal plate is rather more than half the size of the sub- radials,
pentagonal, and rests between two of the posterior subra- dials, and under the ..."
4. Handbook of Mineralogy, Blowpipe Analysis, and Geometrical Crystallography by Gurdon Montague Butler (1911)
"pentagonal can be derived. This new form is . ., r ., ... ui . j rpu- r ...
contain- called the pentagonal ..."
5. A Manual of Metallurgy; Or, A Practical Treatise on the Chemistry of Metals by John Arthur Phillips (1859)
"pentagonal Dodecahedron.—Another very common example of these half crystals is
furnished by the polyhedron, which we have described under the name of the ..."
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