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Geometric vs Octangle - What's the difference?

geometric | octangle |

As an adjective geometric

is geometric.

As a noun octangle is

a geometric figure with eight corners, an octagon.

geometric

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to geometry.
  • * The architect used geometric techniques to design her home.
  • increasing or decreasing in a geometric progression.
  • * Bacteria exhibit geometric increase in numbers when the environment is not limiting.
  • Using simple shapes such as circles, triangles and lines in a decorative object.
  • * The building's profile was strikingly geometric .

    • Synonyms

    * (of or relating to geometry) geometrical * (using simple shapes) geometrical

    Derived terms

    * geometric algorithm * geometric centroid * geometric congruence * geometric construction * geometric correlation * geometric distribution * geometric dual graph * geometric homology * geometric invariant * geometric mean * geometric mean index * geometric modeling * geometric probability * geometric progression * geometric sequence * geometric shape * geometric series * nongeometric * quasigeometric * semigeometric

    Related terms

    * geometer * geometrical * geometrically * geometry

    octangle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A geometric figure with eight corners, an octagon.
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , year = 1853 , month = May , title = On certain geometrical relations between a surface of the second degree and a tetrahedron whose edges touch the surface , first = Thomas , last = Weddle , journal = The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal , volume = 8 , page = 130 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=IbQ5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA130&dq=octangle , passage = The angles of any two of the tetrahedra ABCD, A?B?C?D?, and OO?O?O? form the angles of a complete syngrammatic octangle whose syngrammatic points are the angles of the other tetrahedron }}