digon

Syllables: di·gon/ˈdaɪɡən/US/ˈdaɪɡən/

digon noun: a polygon having two edges and two vertices.

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Noun

digon (plural digons)

A polygon having two edges and two vertices.
- 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...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
Synonyms:

biangle, bigon, diangle
A pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph.
A pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph.

plural	digons

From di- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -gon (suffix forming the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles).

What does digon mean?: Digon means a polygon having two edges and two vertices.
What is digon in Hindi?: Digon in Hindi is डाइगोन (ḍāigon). See Digon meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is digon?: Digon is a noun.
How do you pronounce digon?: Digon is pronounced /ˈdaɪɡən/ (UK).
What is the plural of digon?: The plural of digon is digons.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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