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Pentagon

Pentagon Meaning & Definition
Pentagon Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pentagon?

[n] a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense
[n] the United States military establishment
[n] a five-sided polygon

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See Also | armed forces | bureaucracy | bureaucratism | government building | military | polygon | polygonal shape

Pentagon In Webster's Dictionary

\Pen"ta*gon\, n. [Gr. ?; ? (see {Penta-}) + gwni`a angle: cf. L. pentagonium, F. pentagone.] (Geom.) A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. {Regular pentagon}, a pentagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides all equal.

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