Definition & Meaning | English word OCTAGON

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Definitions of OCTAGON

1. (geometry, also, attributively) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
2. (martial arts) Often in the form Octagon: the arena for mixed martial arts.

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Examples of Using OCTAGON in a Sentence

• All communication is achieved through the use of symbols: for example, a red octagon is a common symbol for "STOP"; on maps, blue lines often represent rivers; and a red rose often symbolizes love and compassion.
• Other bases may be used, such as an octagon, or a frustum with a star section shape more common to pandoro.
• The band continued in the Viking metal style for most of their remaining existence, although they experimented with a thrash metal style on the albums Requiem (1994) and Octagon (1995).
• Design of the octagon may have been inspired by the Corona of Canterbury Cathedral, although octagonal shrines have a long history in Christian architecture.
• In response, the legislature voted on December 18, 1816, that the governor had the power to fill the vacancies left by the Trustees who would not submit (eight known as "the Octagon") and decided to reduce the number required for a quorum.
• Octagon is an extraterrestrial surgeon from Jupiter who uses space technology and primitive tools to perform medical procedures on his patients, some of whom die as he conducts his rounds, while others are murdered by his careless, barbaric acts.
• Other performance venues include the Octagon and Dolphin Theatres and Somerville Auditorium, the Winthrop Hall, Sunken Garden, Undercroft and Tropical Grove, which play host to a range of theatre and musical performances, including during the Perth Festival.
• There are only five regular polygons that are used to tile the plane uniformly (the triangle, square, hexagon, octagon, and dodecagon); the total number of sides in these is: 3 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 12 = 33.
• Lepper, hypothesize that the Octagon, in the Newark Earthworks at Newark, Ohio, was a lunar observatory.
• If squares are constructed all internally or all externally on the sides of an octagon, then the midpoints of the segments connecting the centers of opposite squares form a quadrilateral that is both equidiagonal and orthodiagonal (that is, whose diagonals are equal in length and at right angles to each other).
• Palace of Westminster (his supervision of his father’s work was finally completed in 1870; the only substantial element for which Edward was entirely responsible was the colonnade on New Palace Yard and the striking railings around the Yard, but included work on the Queen's Robing Room, Royal Staircase and the decoration of the Central Octagon Hall).
• Roque is played on a hard sand or clay 30 by 60 foot (approximately 9 by 19 m) court bordered by a boundary wall, a curb bevelled at the ends to form an octagon.
• In 1920 it obtained both the Palace's Rotunda (now the Octagon) and rooms under the winter gardens at the west of the palace, which became chemical laboratories.
• The first three Viscounts Astor are buried within the Astor family chapel (also known as the Octagon Temple) at the Cliveden estate near Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
• A circle is the most efficient shape, but difficult to build and awkward to furnish, so an octagon is a sensible approximation.
• Following the cessation of racing in New York State as a result of the Hart–Agnew Law banning parimutuel betting, Belmont stood American stallions at Haras de Villers such as Flint Rock, Ethelbert, and the sire of Norman III, Octagon.
• The Soldier's Medal is issued as a 1 3/8 inch wide Bronze octagon with an eagle displayed, standing on a fasces, between two groups of stars of six and seven, above the group of six a spray of leaves.
• Access to the Main UCL Wilkins Building (Octagon Building) and the UCL Refectory is possible through the theatre building.
• These were large square stamps with the standard profile of Victoria wearing a diadem, framed with a hexagon and octagon respectively.
• 135 is the number of degrees in the internal angle of a regular eight-sided octagon, and the number of nodes inside a regular nonagon from the intersection of its diagonals and sides.

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