— polygonal /peuh lig"euh nl/ , adj. — polygonally , adv.
/pol"ee gon'/ , n.
a figure, esp. a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides. See illus. under heptagon, hexagon, octagon, pentagon, quadrilateral, triangle .
[ 1560-70; polygonum polýgonon, n. use of neut. of polýgonos many-angled. See POLY-, -GON ]