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Octagon vs Octangle - What's the difference?

octagon | octangle |

As nouns the difference between octagon and octangle

is that octagon is a polygon with eight sides and eight angles while octangle is a geometric figure with eight corners, an octagon.

octagon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geometry) A polygon with eight sides and eight angles.
  • (martial arts, usually capitalized) The arena for mixed martial arts, particularly as trademarked by the .

    • Related terms

    * octagonal

    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 }}