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nounmegagon (plural megagons)
plural megagons
- geometryA polygon with one million sides.
Find the constant of proportionality for a decagon, kilogon, and megagon.
1999, Mark Dugopolski, College Algebra and Trigonometry, page 5052 more examples
There can exist a regular polygon with 1000 sides (this might be called a "regular kilogon"), 1,000,000 sides (a "regular megagon"), or 1,000,000,000 sides (a "regular gigagon").
2003, Stan Gibilisco, Geometry DemystifiedA megagon is close to the perfection of a circle — a kind of generational transmutation.
2007, Arthur Greenberg, From Alchemy to Chemistry in Picture and Story - geometryA polygon with a vastly larger number of sides, used in the definition of Moser's number.
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Chinese Mandarin 百萬邊形 /百万边形
- 百萬邊形 /百万边形 (bǎiwànbiānxíng)1,000,000-sided polygon
Czech milionoúhelník
- milionoúhelník1,000,000-sided polygon
Dutch miljoenhoek
- miljoenhoek1,000,000-sided polygon
Finnish 1000000-kulmio (miljoonakulmio)
- 1000000-kulmio (miljoonakulmio)1,000,000-sided polygon
French mégagone
- mégagone1,000,000-sided polygon
German Millioneneck, 1000000-Eck
- Millioneneck1,000,000-sided polygon
- 1000000-Eck1,000,000-sided polygon
Japanese 百万角形
- 百万角形 (hyakumankakukei)1,000,000-sided polygon
Korean 백만각형
- 백만각형 (baengman'gakhyeong)1,000,000-sided polygon
Polish wielokąt z milionem bokami
- wielokąt z milionem bokami1,000,000-sided polygon
Portuguese megágono
- megágono1,000,000-sided polygon
Russian миллионоугольник
- миллионоугольник (millionougolʹnik)1,000,000-sided polygon
Spanish megágono
- megágono1,000,000-sided polygon
Swedish megagon
- megagon1,000,000-sided polygon
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