apeirogon
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4ADJ.
becoming, horocyclic, hypercyclic, hypercyclic, infinite, infinite, regular, whole
VERB + APEIROGON
meaning, sides
APEIROGON + NOUN
polygon
PREP.
in
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noun
A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices;
Hence the regular polygon ABCD ... can either be a convex n-gon, a star n-gon, a horocylic^([sic – meaning horocyclic]) apeirogon or a hypercyclic apeirogon.
In geometry, an apeirogon is a limiting case of a regular polygon. The number of sides in an apeirogon is becoming infinite, so the apeirogon as a whole approaches a circle. A magnified view of a small piece of the apeirogon looks like a straight line.
A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices; (in the regular case) the limit case of an n-sided regular polygon as n increases to infinity and the edge length is fixed; typically imagined as a straig
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3Hence the regular polygon ABCD ... can either be a convex n-gon, a star n-gon, a horocylic^([sic – meaning horocyclic]) apeirogon or a hypercyclic apeirogon.
WiktionaryIn geometry, an apeirogon is a limiting case of a regular polygon. The number of sides in an apeirogon is becoming infinite, so the apeirogon as a whole approaches a circle. A magnified view of a smal
Wiktionary[A]n apeirogon (infinite regular polygon) is a linear one {∞}, a planar (skew) one (zigzag apeirogon), which is the blend {∞} # { } with a segment, or helix, which is a blend of {∞} with a bounded reg
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