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Q: What does gon as in shapes mean like octaGON?
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What does gon mean at the end of octagon?

It means a corner, or a plane angle.


What does the prefix octagon mean?

An octagon is an eight-sided shape. The prefix is octa-, meaning eight. -Gon refers to the shape.


Is there another name for octagon?

you can use the notation n-gon for any natural number n, so an octagon is an 8-gon.


What are words with the prefix gon?

octagon, hexagon


How many syllables are in octagon?

The word octagon has three syllables. (oc-ta-gon)


What are some words that contain the root gon?

-gon is a suffix used for polygons. Some of these are pentagon, octagon, and decagon.


What are various polygons?

triangle square pentagon hexagon heptagon octagon nonagon decagon undecagon duodecagon ... 99-gon 100-gon 101-gon ...


How do you specify shapes?

You specify shapes by the number of sides (or edges, different name) they have. The suffix -gon at the end of a word show how many sides it has in the words. For example, an octagon has eight sides; so if you see a shape with eight sides, it's an octogon. All shapes are known as polygons, which means it has three or more sides.


How many degress does a octagon have?

An octagon has 1080 degrees total. You can find this by using the fact that the interior angles of a regular n-gon are (n-2)*180/n degrees. Multiplying that number by n gives the total number of degrees in the n-gon.


Would it make sense to call a quadrilateral an n-gon?

no because a quadrilateral can be many shapes and non of them has the name of an n-gon


What shape has 24 corners?

There are very many shapes. One such is a pyramid with a 23-gon base. Another is a dipyramid with a 22-gon base.


What does the greek root gon mean?

gon- parental, where life begins in a way. gon-eis (γονεις) parents pro-gon-os (πρόγονος) ancestor / pro- in Greek is like pre- a-gon-os (άγονος) barren gon-ads (γονάδες)