Polygonhood
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being a polygon. rare, uncountable
"Richard R. Brockhaus (1991), Pulling up the ladder: the metaphysical roots of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, →ISBN, page 195: “However, the circle lacks an essential property of polygonhood, namely having angles, and thus as a convenient fiction we refer to it as a degenerate case of a polygon.”"
Example
More examples"Richard R. Brockhaus (1991), Pulling up the ladder: the metaphysical roots of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, →ISBN, page 195: “However, the circle lacks an essential property of polygonhood, namely having angles, and thus as a convenient fiction we refer to it as a degenerate case of a polygon.”"
Etymology
From polygon + -hood.
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