How to Use polygon in a Sentence

polygon

noun
Definition of polygonnext
  • Pentagons, hexagons, and octagons are all kinds of polygons.
  • When that happened, a polygon was drawn on a map and the alert was sent.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The projector is spraying the floor with a swirling mass of three-inch polygons.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • For decades, nobody could come up with a polygon that had the same property.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The tattoo, only a few inches long, is a spare linear outline of one rod in the form of a polygon.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Each site had an eight-sided polygon and measured 3,000 feet across.
    — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2022
  • At the lowest level, the atoms in each molecule combine to form a polygon.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The Paper Mario games also have simple 3D models due to their art style, so there isn’t much space to add more polygons.
    — PCMAG, 21 May 2024
  • The simplest tilings are made of identical polygons with sides of equal length and angles of equal measure joined full edge to full edge.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Using a 96-sided polygon, Liu Hui was able to determine that the ratio had to be greater than three.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The hat can be regarded as a polygon with edges of length 1 and √3 (where two consecutive edges of length 1 form one longer edge).
    — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The first was the average number of vertices, or corners, per polygon.
    — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • The result of this is a very general idea, a polygon, of where the contamination is.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2024
  • Here's a map showing the storm warnings (yellow polygons) and tree damage reports.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • In other areas, the rock happens to stick up through the red dust as flat polygons resembling pavers in a garden, or as taller, boulder-sized blocks.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The most obvious one is that the series finally gets a visual upgrade and advances from sprites to a 2.5D look built on polygons.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
  • Glasshouse Media In a callback to the living room windows, the primary suite forms a polygon and, at 231 square feet (according to the listing sheet), is one of the largest spaces in the house.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Residents have also held protests and formed polygon and neighborhood groups to try to influence the process.
    — Jess Nocera, baltimoresun.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Other areas had polygons to trace, 3D shapes to play with, simple abacuses, pens and pencils and paper, and so on.
    — Andrew McAfee, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Trails of black and iridescent vinyl polygons fanned across the floor and up the walls, as though an elaborate origami creature was in the process of unfolding itself.
    — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • With ray tracing, the skeletal rig can be rendered as a simple small-polygon figure or in a more complex human form.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • CuLitho produces otherwise hard-to-calculate curvy polygons on the mask, which results in a greater depth of focus for the pattern cast onto the wafer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The two sat together on the library floor studying polygons one afternoon last week.
    — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2017
  • In those games, Mario himself is an obvious 3D polygon positioned on a flat, 2D plane.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Plunked into the center of this field is an irregular polygon, built from six or seven shards of bright color.
    — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • For years, investigators looked for suspects who worked in Manhattan and had lived in the polygon.
    — Joseph Goldstein Johnny Milano, New York Times, 20 July 2023
  • The red polygon is one of a series of tornado warning boxes issued by the Weather Service.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • The wheel itself is ensconced in a polygon lined with colorful panels that reflect sunlight on it.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The developers at Square Enix managed to create touching epics with 16-bit pixels and crude polygons.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2017
  • His first conjecture was that the answer is a smoothed polygon with straight edges and corners rounded with hyperbolas.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2024

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