apeirogon (English, noun)
expansion: apeirogon (plural apeirogons)
Senses:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices;
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
raw_tags: in the regular case
Forms:
form: apeirogons
tags: plural