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Polygon vs Polygony - What's the difference?

polygon | polygony |

As nouns the difference between polygon and polygony

is that polygon is a plane figure bounded by straight edges while polygony is any plant of the genus Polygonum, especially knotgrass.

polygon

English

Noun

(wikipedia polygon) (en noun)
  • (geometry) A plane figure bounded by straight edges.
  • (geometry) The boundary of such a figure.
  • (geometry, more generally) A figure comprising vertices and (not necessarily straight) edges, alternatingly.
  • (geometry) Such a figure and its interior, taken as a whole.

    • Hypernyms

    * See

    Hyponyms

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    Meronyms

    * See

    Derived terms

    * cumulative frequency polygon * frequency polygon * funicular polygon * polygon of forces

    Related terms

    * polygonal * polygonality * polygonhood * polygonness

    See also

    * polyhedron ----

    polygony

    English

    (wikipedia polygony) (Polygonum)

    Noun

    (polygonies)
  • Any plant of the genus Polygonum , especially knotgrass.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
    • There, whether it diuine Tobacco'' were, / Or ''Panachæa'', or ''Polygony , / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].