If viewed from the air, the shape of the building is a pentagon (it has 5 sides)
A five sided polygon is called a pentagon because pentagon means five sided polygon I think.
There is no building called The PolygonBuilding.The US Department of Defense is headquartered in The Pentagon Building.
A 3D pentagon could be called a pentagon prism or a dodecahedron which is a Platonic solid with 12 pentagonal faces.
A polygon with five sides is a pentagon.
A regular pentagon
A Pentagon.
Because it is a building that has five sides to it and the word pentagon means a five sided shape.
The Pentagon The organisation is called the US Department of Defence.
pentagon A pentagon. A 5-sided figure is called a pentagon. pentagon A five sided figure is called a pentagon
It was named after a pentagon, it wasn't the 'Pentagon' that named the 'pentagon'.
A pentagon if all sides are equal - if they are not it is called a polygon
There is no building called The PolygonBuilding.The US Department of Defense is headquartered in The Pentagon Building.
Pentagon ("pent" means five).
A five sided polygon is called a pentagon because pentagon means five sided polygon I think.
A pentagon with 14 sides is called a "contradiction in terms".The definition of a pentagon is: A figure with fivesides.
Because a pentagon has 5 sides
There is no building called The PolygonBuilding.The US Department of Defense is headquartered in The Pentagon Building.