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Webster 1913 Edition


Chiliagon

Chil′i-a-gon

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK];
χίλιοι
a thousand + [GREEK] angle.]
A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.
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Webster 1828 Edition


Chiliagon

CHILIAGON

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Noun.
A plain figure of a thousand angles and sides.

Definition 2024


chiliagon

chiliagon

English

Noun

chiliagon (plural chiliagons)

  1. (geometry) (rare) A polygon with a thousand vertices and a thousand edges.
    • 1995: If Kant's claim is just that it is impossible to have a sensory experience of the absence of space, then by contrast it is not impossible to have a sensory experience of a chiliagon. — Lorne Falkenstein, Kant's Intuitionism (Toronto 2004, p. 198)

Usage notes

  • The term chiliagon is rarely used in mathematics, the term "1000-gon" being preferred.

Synonyms

  • 1000-gon