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单词 hendecagon
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hendecagonn.

Brit. /hɛnˈdɛkəɡ(ə)n/, /hɛnˈdɛkəɡɒn/, U.S. /hɛnˈdɛkəˌɡɑn/
Forms: 1600s hendecagone, 1600s–1700s endecagone, 1600s–1800s endecagon, 1700s 2000s– hendecagon.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French hendécagone.
Etymology: < French hendécagone (also endécagone) plane figure having eleven sides and eleven angles (1613 or earlier), fort with eleven bastions (1619 or earlier) < post-classical Latin hendecagonus plane figure having eleven sides and eleven angles (1583 or earlier), fort with eleven bastions (1604 or earlier) < Hellenistic Greek ἑνδεκάγωνος having eleven angles < ancient Greek ἕνδεκα- hendeca- comb. form + -γωνος -gon comb. form.Compare Italian endecagono plane figure having eleven sides and eleven angles (1599 or earlier).
1. Fortification. A fort with eleven bastions. Obsolete. rare.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fort or fortified town > [noun] > other types of fort
hendecagon1648
grand1670
etoile1727
vitrified fort1777
roundabout1795
ring fort1846
oppidum1847
sea-fort1879
motte-and-bailey1900
motte castle1912
mote-castle1919
murus gallicus1939
1648 B. Gerbier Interpreter Acad. Forrain Langs. ii. 9 All figures take their name, either from the number of angles or from the sid's, from thence comes the Greek names of Trigone, Tetragone, Pentagone, Exagone, Eptagone, Octogone, Enneagone, Decagone, Endecagone, Dodecagone Polygone, which is to say a Fortification of 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. angles, sid's or Bastions.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Hendecagon, in Fortification, 'tis taken for a Place defended by 11 Bastions.
2. Geometry. A plane geometrical figure with eleven angles and eleven straight sides. Also: an object of hendecagonal form or cross-section.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > two-dimensional > with ten or more sides or angles
quindecagon1570
quindecangle1636
hendecagon1649
decagona1652
dodecagon1658
quatuordecangle1667
myriagon1674
chiliagon1692
pendecagon1695
undecagon1728
1649 B. Gerbier 1st Lect. Mil. Archit. 5 The figure takes its denomination either from the number of angles, or sides;..Enneagone at nine, Decagone at ten, Endecagone at eleven, Dodecagone at twelve.
1672 R. Pricke tr. J. Dubreuil Perspective Pract. 4 From the intersection C, unto the E, draw a line C D. This is the side of the Hendecagone [Fr. l'endecagone].
1752 J. L. Cowley Geom. made Easy ii. iv. 47 A Figure of five Sides is called a Pentagon;..; of eleven, a Endecagon; of twelve, a Dodecagon, &c.
1861 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 151 237 M. Mention has also given, but not in a developed form, the formulæ for the enneagon and the endecagon.
2010 @AnswersDotCom 2 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) The Susan B. Anthony [Canadian] $1 was originally a hendecagon, but vending machine manufacturers protested.

Derivatives

hendeˈcagonal adj. Geometry having the form of a hendecagon; eleven-sided; (also) of or relating to a hendecagon or hendecagons.
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1740 H. Meissner Stern und Kern der Algebræ 233 Eilff-Ekk, Undecangular, Hendecagonal.
1851 Ecclesiologist 12 401 To accommodate the vaulting of the aisles, the three sides that face them are thrown into two;—thus the capitals become hendecagonal.
2014 @SeanReeves 18 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) 23725 is a #hendecagonal #pyramidal number.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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