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the shape that means stop on the road and brawl in the cage
means A flat shape with eight straight sides and eight angles.
from From Greek 'oktagonon,' built from 'okto' (eight) and 'gonia' (angle, corner) — the same '-gon' that runs through pentagon, hexagon, and polygon, all named for their corners rather than their sides. 'Gonia' is a cousin of 'gony,' the knee, the body's own bent angle.
- stop signs
- Eight sides so drivers recognize it even snow-covered
- fighting cage
- UFC trademarked the eight-sided Octagon in 2001
- angle sum
- Interior angles total exactly 1080 degrees
- islamic art
- Symbolizes the transition from square earth to circular heaven
- truncated square
- Slice four corners off a square, octagon appears
for instance
ufc octagon — 8-sided fighting cage used in ultimate fighting championship events since 1993
washington dc octagon — historic downtown intersection where l'enfant's federal city plan radiates outward
ramanujan constant octagon — mathematical construction in number theory related to transcendental numbers