A shape that has 8 equal sides. The most commonly known and referenced example of a regular octagon is that of the head of a stop sign.
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An octogon has 8 sides. A regular octagon is like a stop sign.
An octagon has eight sides. A regular octagon is one that has eight sides of equal length, and all the angles are of the same measure. Anything else - sides that are not all the same length, or not all angles the same - would be a non-regular octagon.
Octagons can be irregular or regular. It depends on the measure of the angles and the length of a side. An octagon is a shape with 8 sides, not necessarily the regular octagon that stop signs are shaped like.
If is a regular octagon (like a stop sign) then yes. The only requirement for a polygon to be an octagon is that it have 8 sides. Try it out, you can make all sorts of 8-sided polygons that look nothing like a stop sign but that are still octagons.
An octagon has eight sides that join together.