Meaning of pentagon in English
the Pentagon
noun
uk
/ˈpen.tə.ɡən/ us
/ˈpen.t̬ə.ɡɑːn/the building in Washington where the US Defense Department is based, or the US Defense Department itself:
- anti-democrat
- anti-Republican
- battleground state
- bicameral
- gubernatorial
- homeland security
- House Committee
- impeach
- Independence Day
- roll call vote
- secret service
- secretary
- secretary of defense
- the Articles of Confederation
- the GOP
- the Republican Party
- the White House
- voting district
- wheeling
- Whiggery
pentagon | American Dictionary
Examples of pentagon
pentagon
The resulting cells are all hexagons, except that the cells corresponding to the 12 vertices of the original icosahedron are pentagons.
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We may need to link extra cycles to the squares and pentagons in this construction to pack these cycles fully.
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As before, we shall attempt to pack some of the cycles as connected sequences of triangles, squares and pentagons.
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The idea is to pack some of the cycles as connected sequences of triangles, squares and pentagons in certain explicit constructions.
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The resulting mesh of hexagons and pentagons is nearly uniform, and it avoids the problems with coordinate poles described in the preceding subsection.
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We may have to link extra cycles to the squares and pentagons in the construction.
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This relationship does not hold for sides, chords and diameters in the pentagon.
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The position of reefs is shown by the three groupings of pentagons, individually located by interviewees, with greater consistency in location highlighted for the reefs closer to the community.
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However, each of these cycles is precisely a pentagon (since a 5 cannot be written together with a 3 or another 5), so they pack entirely too.
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I do not think it is a pentagon but it might have four sides.
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Those atoms form a closed cage made up of 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons that fit together like the surface of a football.
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It is the pentagon design of semi-submersible.
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In my constituency, there are some pentagon blocks — pentagon in shape rather than in intention—which have been successful and are used as warden-controlled old persons' accommodation.
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Pentagon economists acknowledge that steps could be taken to spend the existing military budget more efficiently.
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It is one of 14 known isohedral pentagon tilings.
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