Pentagon

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  • noun. A polygon with five sides and five angles.
  • noun. A five-sided building near Washington DC, containing the US Department of Defense and the offices of the US Armed Forces. Used with the.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In geometry, a figure of five sides and five angles: if all the sides and all the angles are equal it is a regular pentagon.
  • noun. In fortification, a fort with five bastions.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles.
  • noun. a pentagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides all equal.
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  • noun. A polygon with five sides and five angles.
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  • noun. the United States military establishment
  • noun. a five-sided polygon
  • noun. a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense
    • Word Usage
    "In particular, the fact that the pentagon is exempt from inclusion on U.S. emissions makes our participation in this conference a joke."
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    Wikipedia article on pentagons  pentagram  
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    pentagonal  
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