What does a geometric name for a figure mean?

Anonymous

∙ 9y ago

Updated: 8/19/2019

For a Polygon, "Poly" means "many" or "a number of"; "gon", roughly means "angles". So a poloygon is a figure with a number of angles between its sides.

If the number of sides is definite then "poly" is replaced by a word meaning that number.

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