polygon

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polygon

Summary

polygon ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,876 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • polygon followed dion[2].
  • polygon was followed by polyhedron[3].
  • polygon is a type of plane figure[4].
  • polygon is a type of simple polytope[5].
  • polygon is a type of simplicial polytope[6].
  • polygon is a type of closed polygonal chain[7].
  • polygon's Commons category is recorded as Polygons[8].
  • polygon's said to be the same as is recorded as Polygon[9].
  • polygon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Polygons[10].
  • polygon's Commons gallery is recorded as Polygon[11].
  • polygon's has facet polytope is recorded as edge[12].
  • polygon's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • polygon's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • polygon's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15].
  • polygon's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[16].
  • polygon's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox polygon[17].
  • polygon's different from is recorded as Schießstand[18].
  • polygon's studied by is recorded as Q114706285[19].
  • polygon's disjoint union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[20].
  • polygon's disjoint union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[21].
  • polygon's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].
  • polygon's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[23].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include plane figure[4], simple polytope[5], simplicial polytope[6], and closed polygonal chain[7].

Influence

Things named for polygon include 65537-gon[24].

Why It Matters

polygon ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,876 views/month).[1] polygon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] polygon is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Entities named for polygon include 65537-gon[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . books.google.es. Retrieved . books.google.es. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Infovarius · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has facet polytope → edge
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P1312]]: [[Q141155734]], Moving to [[Q91079958]]"
  2. 6w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has facet polytope → edge
    Subclass of → plane figure, simple polytope, simplicial polytope +1
    P14439 → 000505
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1312]]: [[Q141155734]]"
  3. 6w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → plane figure, simple polytope, simplicial polytope +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q141152468]]"
  4. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2KySYB
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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