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Definition of Octangle
1. an octagon [n -S] - See also: octagon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octangle
Literary usage of Octangle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal by William Whewell, Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Thomson Kelvin, Norman Macleod Ferrers (1852)
"... octangle. It is easily shewn that the points ABCDEFGH are the angles of a complete
... octangle whose ..."
2. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal (1852)
"... octangle. Considering then (1) and (2) as a single system, it will have eight
angular points ABCDA'B'C'D, twelve faces (1, 2), sixteen edges and four ..."
3. Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Representative Arts; an Essay in by George Lansing Raymond (1895)
"A way somewhat less gradual, is through a use of straight lines OOO combined with
very obtuse angles, as in an octangle. A still less gradual way is through ..."
4. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Jonathan Foster (1864)
"The above-mentioned octangle was placed in a room of the Patriarch's house, and
was surrounded by four pictures, each two braccia and a half square, ..."
5. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: Tr. from the by Giorgio Vasari, Jean Paul Richter (1864)
"The above-mentioned octangle was placed in a room of the Patriarch's house, and
was surrounded by four pictures, each two braccia and a half square, ..."
6. Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1897)
"... which is in the lake of Bolsena, he built two small temples for the Cardinal
Farnese, one of which he made an octangle on ..."
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