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Pentagonal

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pen·ta·gon  (pnt-gn)
n.
1. A polygon having five sides and five interior angles.
2. Pentagon A five-sided building near Washington, D.C., containing the U.S. Department of Defense and the offices of the U.S. Armed Forces. Used with the.

[Late Latin pentagnum, from Greek pentagnon : penta-, penta- + -gnon, -gon.]

pen·tago·nal (pn-tg-nl) adj.
pen·tago·nal·ly adv.
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pentagon
mathematical figure
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Adj.1.pentagonal - of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon


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The good sense of the community has seconded the efforts of the Legislature; and now, even in the country, the pentagonal construction has superseded every other.
After all the pentagonal, hexagonal, and whimsical faces, which had succeeded each other at that hole without realizing the ideal of the grotesque which their imaginations, excited by the orgy, had constructed, nothing less was needed to win their suffrages than the sublime grimace which had just dazzled the assembly.
 
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