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polygonhood

polygonhood noun: the state of being a polygon.

Noun

polygonhood (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state of being a polygon.
    • Richard R. Brockhaus (1991), Pulling up the ladder: the metaphysical roots of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, →ISBN, page 195: “However, the circle lacks an essential property of polygonhood, namely having angles, and thus as a convenient fiction we refer to it as a degenerate case of a polygon.”
    • W.S. Anglin (1997), The Philosophy of Mathematics: the Invisible Art, →ISBN, page 11: “None the less, for any natural number n > 3, there is a form of n-hood, and a form of n-sided polygon-hood. For example, when n = 4, we have the form of fourness and the form of squareness.”

Synonyms of polygonhood

Origin of polygonhood

From polygon + -hood.

Questions about polygonhood

What does polygonhood mean?
Polygonhood means the state of being a polygon.
What part of speech is polygonhood?
Polygonhood is a noun.

Words near polygonhood in the dictionary

  1. polygonatoside
  2. polygonboden
  3. polygoneutic
  4. polygoneutism
  5. polygonflavanol
  6. polygonhood
  7. polygonia
  8. polygonial
  9. polygonials
  10. polygonias
  11. polygonic

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