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Webster 1913 Edition
Chiliagon
Chil′i-a-gon
,Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK];
χίλιοι
a thousand + [GREEK] angle.] A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Chiliagon
CHILIAGON
,Noun.
Definition 2024
chiliagon
chiliagon
English
Noun
chiliagon (plural chiliagons)
- (geometry) (rare) A polygon with a thousand vertices and a thousand edges.
- 1995: If Kant's claim is just that it is impossible to have a sensory experience of the absence of space, then by contrast it is not impossible to have a sensory experience of a chiliagon. — Lorne Falkenstein, Kant's Intuitionism (Toronto 2004, p. 198)
Usage notes
- The term chiliagon is rarely used in mathematics, the term "1000-gon" being preferred.
Synonyms
- 1000-gon