digon
English
WOTD – 11 February 2022
Etymology
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From di- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -gon (suffix forming the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪɡən/, /ˈdaɪˌɡɒn/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪɡən/, /ˈdaɪˌɡɑn/
- Hyphenation: di‧gon
Noun
digon (plural digons)
- (geometry) A polygon having two edges and two vertices.
- 2013, Brent Davis, Moshe Renert, chapter 6, in The Math Teachers Know: Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 102:
- They [the students] also came upon new and unusual mathematical figures: the digon, a two-sided polygon on a spherical space, and the apeirogon, an open polygon with infinitely many sides […]. All these discoveries brought up even more questions. Is a circle a polygon? What makes an octagon an octagon – its eight vertices, its eight sides, or both? Can a polygon cross itself? Does a polygon need to be closed?
- (graph theory)
- A pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph.
- A pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
polygon having two edges and two vertices
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pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph
pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph
Esperanto
Welsh
Etymology
Deverbal from digoni (“to be able, to suffice”).
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdɪɡɔn/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdiːɡɔn/, /ˈdɪɡɔn/
Derived terms
- digonol (“adequate”)
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
digon | ddigon | nigon | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “digon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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