quinquangle en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkwɪŋˌkwæŋɡəl/
Etymology
From Late Latin quīnquangulum, use as noun of neuter of quīnquangulus (“pentagonal”). By surface analysis, quinqu- + -angle.
Meanings
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(archaic) Synonym of pentagon (“a polygon with five sides and five angles”).
And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut.
1636, Peter Ramus, translated by Peter Bedwell, The Way To Geometry: [Being Necessary and Usefull for Astronomers, Enginees, Geographers,. Architects, Land-meaters, Carpenters, Sea-men & Etc.], pages 277–278:It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.
1858, Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India, W. H. Allen & Co., page 22:Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford, volume 1, page 170: