polygonality

plural polygonalities

1. uncountableusuallymathematicsThe state of being a polygon, the degree to which an object is polygonal.

   The common feature of these and earlier was that the polygonality was regarded as an indication of nonimpact, or even non-explosive origin.

   2010, T. Öhman et al., “Polygonal impact craters in the Solar System: Observations and implications”, in Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution IV, →ISBN, page 52

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   As the number of faces increases, the space-fillers contact more distant neighbours, the polygonalities of the faces of contact decreasing as the order of the neighbours increases.

   1985, A. C. Ferro und M. A. Fortes, “A new family of trivalent space-filling parallelohedra”, in Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, volume 173

   M. Glouberman (1986), Descartes: The Probable and the Certain, →ISBN, page 213: “Conversely, (b) the condition of polygonality is a part of each of the conditions of triangularity, quadrilaterality, etc., and hence the latter are more than the term which collects them: the collecting term is, in other words, less than the terms it collects.”

   Synonyms: polygonhood, polygonness