page_title: Octagon
hierarchical_section_title: Octagon
context_page_description: In geometry, an octagon is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
  A regular octagon has Schläfli symbol {8} and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t{4}, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t{8} is a hexadecagon, {16}.
context_section_description: In geometry, an octagon (from the Greek ὀκτάγωνον oktágōnon, "eight angles") is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
  A regular octagon has Schläfli symbol {8}  and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t{4}, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t{8} is a hexadecagon, {16}.
caption: A regular octagon