Meanings
plural digons
- geometryA polygon having two edges and two vertices.
1 more example
They [the students] also came upon new and unusual mathematical figures: the digon, a two-sided polygon on a spherical space, and the apeirogon, an open polygon with infinitely many sides […]. All these discoveries brought up even more questions. Is a circle a polygon? What makes an octagon an octagon – its eight vertices, its eight sides, or both? Can a polygon cross itself? Does a polygon need to be closed?
2013, Brent Davis, Moshe Renert, chapter 6, in The Math Teachers Know: Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 102 - graph theoryA pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph.
- graph theoryA pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From di- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -gon (suffix forming the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Basque digono
- digonopolygon having two edges and two vertices
Bengali দ্বিভুজ
- দ্বিভুজ (dibhuj)polygon having two edges and two vertices
Chinese Mandarin 二角形
- 二角形 (èrjiǎoxíng)polygon having two edges and two vertices
Czech dvojúhelník
- dvojúhelníkpolygon having two edges and two vertices
Dutch tweehoek
- tweehoekpolygon having two edges and two vertices
Esperanto dulatero
- dulateropolygon having two edges and two vertices
Finnish kaksikulmio
- kaksikulmiopolygon having two edges and two vertices
French digone
- digonepolygon having two edges and two vertices
German Kugelzweieck, sphärisches Zweieck
- Kugelzweieckpolygon having two edges and two vertices
- sphärisches Zweieckpolygon having two edges and two vertices
- Zweieckpolygon having two edges and two vertices
- Kugelzweiseitpolygon having two edges and two vertices
- Zwickelpolygon having two edges and two vertices
Hindi डाइगोन
- डाइगोन (ḍāigon)polygon having two edges and two vertices
Hungarian kétszög
- kétszögpolygon having two edges and two vertices
Icelandic tvíhyrningur
- tvíhyrningurpolygon having two edges and two vertices
Japanese 二角形
- 二角形 (nikakukata)polygon having two edges and two vertices
Korean 이각형
- 이각형 (igakhyeong)polygon having two edges and two vertices
Norwegian Bokmål sfærisk tokant
- sfærisk tokantpolygon having two edges and two vertices
Polish dwukąt
- dwukątpolygon having two edges and two vertices
Russian двуугольник
- двуугольник (dvuugolʹnik)polygon having two edges and two vertices
Spanish dígono
- dígonopolygon having two edges and two vertices
Thai รูปสองเหลี่ยม
- รูปสองเหลี่ยมpolygon having two edges and two vertices
Ukrainian дигон, двокутник
- дигон (dyhon)polygon having two edges and two vertices
- двокутник (dvokutnyk)polygon having two edges and two vertices
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with digon
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Cite this entry
digon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digon
“digon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digon. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “digon,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digon.
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