DEFINITION OF POLYGON The word polygon means "many-angled".

Polygon names Name Edges Remarks In the Euclidean plane, degenerates to a closed curve with a single vertex point on it. In the Euclidean plane, degenerates to a closed curve with two vertex points on it. The simplest polygon which can exist in the Euclidean plane.

henagon (or monogon)

digon

triangle (or trigon)

quadrilateral (or quadrangle or tetragon)

The simplest polygon which can cross itself.

The simplest polygon which can exist as a pentagon 5 regular star. A star pentagon is known as a pentagram or pentacle. hexagon heptagon octagon 6 7 8 "nonagon" is commonly used but mixes enneagon or nonagon 9 Latin [novem = 9] with Greek. Some modern authors prefer "enneagon". avoid "sexagon" = Latin [sex-] + Greek avoid "septagon" = Latin [sept-] + Greek

decagon hendecagon dodecagon tridecagon (or triskaidecagon) tetradecagon (or tetrakaidecagon) pentadecagon (or quindecagon or pentakaidecagon) hexadecagon (or hexakaidecagon) heptadecagon (or heptakaidecagon) octadecagon (or octakaidecagon) enneadecagon (or enneakaidecagon nonadecagon) icosagon triacontagon

10 11 12 13 avoid "undecagon" = Latin [un-] + Greek avoid "duodecagon" = Latin [duo-] + Greek

14

15

16

17

18

or 19

20 30 "hectogon" is the Greek name

hectogon

100

(see hectometre), "centagon" is a Latin-

Greek hybrid; neither is widely attested. The measure of each angle in a regular chiliagon is 179.64. The internal angle of a regular myriagon is 179.964. The internal angle of a regular megagon is 179.99964 degrees. A degenerate polygon of infinitely many sides

chiliagon

1000

myriagon

10,000

megagon[5]

1,000,000

apeirogon

The relationship between cube and cuboid A cuboid is a solid (3-dimensional) object with six faces that are rectangular and which meet at right angles. A cube is a special case of a cuboid, where all sides have the same length. The relationship is the same in terms of no of sides, vertex, and edges. But, cuboids have one parallel side which is shorter to the other one parallel side. The relationship between cylinder and prism Pyramids are not prisms nor are prisms pyramids. A pyramid has one polygonal base. Each side of that polygon is connected to a triangle, whose third vertices meet at a point above the base of the pyramid. A prism has two congruent polygonal bases that are parallel to one another. They are joined together by rectangles.