SPHERICAL POLYGON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A figure on the surface of a sphere bounded by arcs of 3 or more great circles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("spherical polygon" is a kind of...):

polygon; polygonal shape (a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spherical polygon"):

spherical triangle (a spherical polygon formed by the arcs of 3 great circles)

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