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Octagonal is the describing word for something with eight sides and eight corners — the shape of an . You put it in front of a noun: an octagonal table, an octagonal tower, an octagonal mirror. The thing itself is the ; octagonal tells you what kind of thing it is. It is a calm school-and-design word, not slang and not medical. People use it for buildings, furniture, coins seen from above, and umbrellas. You would not usually say “I drew an octagonal” and stop there — that is the noun’s job.
八邊形的;八角形的
組成octagon + -al (makes a describing word).
同家族的字
- octagonoctagonal is simply octagon plus -al
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
octagonaladj/ɑkˈtæɡənəl/
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geometrymathematicssciencesShaped like an octagon, in having eight sides and eight angles.
- Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles.
- The sundials range in shape from octagonal to the usual round. Prices range from $75 to $375.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。