apeirogon

Meanings

Plural: apeirogons

Noun

• A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices;
• A type of generalised polygon with a countably infinite number of sides and vertices; (in the regular case) the limit case of an n-sided regular polygon as n increases to infinity and the edge length is fixed; typically imagined as a straight line partitioned into equal segments by an infinite number of equally-spaced points.
• the limit case of an n-sided regular polygon as n increases to infinity and the edge length is fixed; typically imagined as a straight line partitioned into equal segments by an infinite number of equally-spaced points.

Related Words

apeirohedron, infinigon, pseudogon