apeirogon
Meanings
noun
- A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices;
- A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices; (in the regular case) the limit case of an n-sided regular polygon as n increases to infinity and the edge length is fixed; typically imagined as a straight line partitioned into equal segments by an infinite number of equally-spaced points.
- the limit case of an n-sided regular polygon as n increases to infinity and the edge length is fixed; typically imagined as a straight line partitioned into equal segments by an infinite number of equally-spaced points.
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Etymology
From apeiro- + -gon.
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