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digon

  • /ˈdaɪɡən/ UK
  • /ˈdaɪˌɡɒn/ UK
  • /ˈdaɪɡən/ US
  • /ˈdaɪˌɡɑn/ US

Rhymes with -aɪɡən, -aɪɡɒn

Where it comes from

From di- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -gon (suffix forming the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles).

noun digons

  1. A polygon having two edges and two vertices. They [the students] also came upon new and unusual mathematical figures: the digon, a two-sided polygon on a spherical space, and the apeirogon, an open polygon with infinitely many sides […]. All these discoveries brought up even more questions. Is a circle a polygon? What makes an octagon an octag

    Similar: biangle, bigon, diangle

  2. A pair of parallel undirected edges in a multigraph.
  3. A pair of antiparallel edges in a directed graph.

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noun polygon having two edges and two vertices

Españoldígono
한국어이각형 igakhyeong
日本語二角形 nikakukata
中文二角形 èrjiǎoxíng
हिन्दीडाइगोन ḍāigon
Françaisdigone
DeutschKugelzweieck, sphärisches Zweieck, Zweieck, Kugelzweiseit, Zwickel
Русскийдвуугольник dvuugolʹnik

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"digon." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/digon. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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digon. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/digon

Chicago

"digon." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/digon.

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@misc{digon_2026,
  title = {digon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/digon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}