Meaning of PENTAGON
| Pronunciation: | | 'pentu`gân
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- [n] a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense
- [n] the United States military establishment
- [n] a five-sided polygon
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| | See Also: | | armed forces, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, government building, military, polygon, polygonal shape | |
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| | Definition: | | \Pen"ta*gon\, n. [Gr. ?; ? (see {Penta-}) + gwni`a
angle: cf. L. pentagonium, F. pentagone.] (Geom.)
A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five
sides; any figure having five angles.
{Regular pentagon}, a pentagon in which the angles are all
equal, and the sides all equal.
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