How do you use Pentagons in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Pentagons meaning
plural of pentagon
Using Pentagons
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of pentagon
- In the example corpus, pentagons often appears in combinations such as: pentagons are, the pentagons, star pentagons.
Context around Pentagons
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pentagons
- In this selection, "pentagons" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, star, regular, two, meeting and instead stand out and add context to how "pentagons" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and black pentagons and and two pentagons meeting at. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pentagons" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pentagons
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Further, he recognized that these star pentagons are also regular. (10 words)
However, the pentagons are not regular and the figure has no fivefold symmetry axes. (14 words)
In 1809, Louis Poinsot rediscovered Kepler's figures, by assembling star pentagons around each vertex. (15 words)
It is also common for the white and black player to be indicated at the beginning of the notation string with either black and white triangles or shogi-piece-shaped pentagons, such as ▲７六歩△３四歩▲２六歩△３二金 main or ☗７六歩☖３四歩☗２六歩☖３二金 main. (44 words)
Triangulation number Virus capsid T-numbers Icosahedral virus capsids are typically assigned a triangulation number (T-number) to describe the relation between the number of pentagons and hexagons i.e. their quasi-symmetry in the capsid shell. (37 words)
The rhombic dodecahedron can be seen as a degenerate pyritohedron where the 6 special edges have been reduced to zero length, reducing the pentagons into rhombic faces. (27 words)
Example sentences (14)
Its occurrence in regular pentagons and decagons was duly observed, as well as in the dodecahedron (a regular polyhedron whose twelve faces are regular pentagons).
An icosidodecahedron has 30 identical vertices, with two triangles and two pentagons meeting at each, and 60 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a pentagon.
Further, he recognized that these star pentagons are also regular.
He noticed that by extending the edges or faces of the convex dodecahedron until they met again, he could obtain star pentagons.
However, the pentagons are not regular and the figure has no fivefold symmetry axes.
In 1809, Louis Poinsot rediscovered Kepler's figures, by assembling star pentagons around each vertex.
In the structure shown at right, the two pentagons are the cyclopentadienyl anions with circles inside them indicating they are aromatically stabilized.
It is also common for the white and black player to be indicated at the beginning of the notation string with either black and white triangles or shogi-piece-shaped pentagons, such as ▲７六歩△３四歩▲２六歩△３二金 main or ☗７六歩☖３四歩☗２六歩☖３二金 main.
Pex Pex is nearly identical to Hex, except that it's played on a rhombus-shaped tiling of irregular pentagons, instead of regular hexagons.
The hidden inner pentagons are no longer part of the polyhedral surface, and can disappear.
There, within one polymeric chain, all the halide atoms lie in one graphite-like plane and form planar pentagons around the protactinium ions.
The rhombic dodecahedron can be seen as a degenerate pyritohedron where the 6 special edges have been reduced to zero length, reducing the pentagons into rhombic faces.
This geometry is associated with footballs (soccer balls) typically patterned with white hexagons and black pentagons.
Triangulation number Virus capsid T-numbers Icosahedral virus capsids are typically assigned a triangulation number (T-number) to describe the relation between the number of pentagons and hexagons i.e. their quasi-symmetry in the capsid shell.
Common combinations with pentagons
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: