octagon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a polygon with eight sides and eight angles

   The architect designed the central room as a regular octagon.

Through Latin octagonon from Ancient Greek oktagonon ("eight-angled figure"), formed from okto ("eight") + gonia ("angle, corner"). The obsolete spelling octogon reflects variation in the classical combining form.

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