What is a polygon in geometry?

What Is a Polygon? Polygon; the word means "many angles," but it ignores one attribute: straight sides. Polygons are all around us! Learning about these basic plane shapes helps you understand geometry.

How many sides does a polygon have?

Polygon, in geometry, any closed curve consisting of a set of line segments (sides) connected such that no two segments cross. The simplest polygons are triangles (three sides), quadrilaterals (four sides), and pentagons (five sides). If none of the sides, when extended, intersects the polygon, it

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Do polygons have special names?

However, few polygons have some special names. The minimum number of sides a polygon can have is 3 because it needs a minimum of 3 sides to be a closed shape or else it will be open. Even though polygons with sides greater than 10, also have special names, we generally denote them with n-gon as the names are complex and not easy to remember.