Definitions for Pentagon
ˈpɛn təˌgɒnpen·ta·gon

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.3 / 3 votes

1. Pentagonnoun

   a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense

2. Pentagonnoun

   the United States military establishment

3. pentagonnoun

   a five-sided polygon

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 3 votes

1. pentagonnoun

   A polygon with five sides and five angles.

2. Pentagonnoun

   the headquarters of the United States of America's Department of Defense.

3. Etymology: From French pentagone or late Latin pentagonum, from πεντάγωνον, noun use of the neuter of the adjective πεντάγωνος, from πέντε + -γωνος.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PENTAGONnoun

   A figure with five angles.

   Etymology: pentagon, Fr. πέντε and γωνία.

   I know of that famous piece at Capralora, cast by Baroccio into the form of a pentagon with a circle inscribed. Henry Wotton.

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1. Pentagon

   In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε pente meaning five and γωνία gonia meaning angle) is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°. A pentagon may be simple or self-intersecting. A self-intersecting regular pentagon (or star pentagon) is called a pentagram.

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1. pentagon

   A pentagon is a five-sided polygon with five corners and five edges. It is considered a regular pentagon if all its sides are equal in length and all its interior angles are of the same degree. The sum of the interior angles of a pentagon is 540 degrees.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.4 / 5 votes

1. Pentagonnoun

   a plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles

2. Etymology: [Gr. penta`gwnon; penta- (see Penta-) + gwni`a angle: cf. L. pentagonium, F. pentagone.]

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1. Pentagon

   In geometry, a pentagon is any five-sided polygon. A pentagon may be simple or self-intersecting. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°. A pentagram is an example of a self-intersecting pentagon.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pentagon

   A right-lined figure of five equal sides and angles.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pentagon

   In fortification, a figure bounded by five sides, which form so many angles, capable of being fortified with an equal number of bastions. It also denotes a fort with five bastions.

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1. pentagon

   The Pentagon is a white apartment high-rise located at 4010 Lawrence Ave. East and Kingston Road in south Scarborough, an eastern suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. No one remembers why it was given that name. It has a steady traffic of customers looking for crack, marijuana or cocaine, plus the area is riped with prostitution. This area was believed to be the birthplace and central hub of the Galloway Boys street gang (then known as the "KGB" or "Kingston-Galloway Boys").

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1. pentagon

   The pentagon symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the pentagon symbol and its characteristic.

Matched Categories

1. • Bureaucracy
   • Government Building
   • Military
   • Polygon

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pentagon in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pentagon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Pentagon in a Sentence

1. Sue Gough:

   We are proud of our history of providing a safe operating area for events on the Pentagon Reservation, to include Rolling Thunder every year, the Pentagon civilian workforce, including PFPA, have a large veteran presence, and we especially appreciate the opportunity to support events that honor those who've served and sacrificed.

2. Omar Bradley:

   Wilkie also served in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld, worked for Condoleezza Rice and had years of experience on Capitol Hill working for Sens. Thom Tillis and Trent Lott. In his new office, Wilkie now hangs a portrait of Gen. Omar Bradley, the first secretary of Veterans Affairs after World War II, and has chosen Bradley's desk as his own. Omar Bradley was tasked with changing VA to accommodate 11 million soldiers coming off active duty and into Veterans Affairs ranks, he was really a visionary.

3. Aaron Belkin:

   It’s a good standard because the Pentagon is treating gender dysphoria according to the same standards that are applied to all medical conditions.

4. John McCain:

   John McCain said. Last weekend, the Obama administration sent six Guantanamo Bay detainees to Uruguay for resettlement as refugees as part of Guantanamo Bay plan to depopulate the camp prior to its closure. Four of the former detainees -- Ahmed Adnan Ahjam, Ali Hussain Shaabaan, Omar Mahmoud Faraj, and Jihad Diyab -- are Syrian nationals, while Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy is Tunisian, and Mohammed Tahanmatan is Palestinian, according to Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby. RELATED : GOP congressman : We' ought to rethink' Gitmo transfer policy I just don't think that is trustworthy, i am very concerned.

5. Jack Keane:

   We knew we were at war, the first battle of that war took place in the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. I visited the hospital that night, five different hospitals. We had lots of wounded. Some of them stayed for weeks. I realized that there was a significant amount of heroism that had taken place from the patients in the hospital, as well as from my officers and CEOs and civilians who joined me in the operation center who had been assisting people outside.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Pentagon
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pentagon
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Pentagon
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pentagon
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Pentagon
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Pentagon
9. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Pentagon