Different types of polygons
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| Polygon | A many sided closed figure named according to the number of angles and sides they have- Greek word "poly" means many; Greek word "gon" means angles
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| Equilateral Polygon | All sides are congruent
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| Equiangular Polygon | All sides are congruent
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| Regular Polygon | All sides and all angles are congruent
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| Vertices | Endpoints of the sides of a polygon
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| Diagonal | Line segment connecting two nonadjacent vertices in a polygon
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| Convex Polygon | No diagonals contains points outside the polygon; no angle greater than 180°; a line crosses at most two sides.
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| Concave Polygon | Lines can be drawn outside the polygon; at least one interior angle is greater than 180°(reflex angle); at least one line can be drawn across more than two sides
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| Quadrilateral | Four side, four angles, and four vertices
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| Parallelogram | Quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parellel and congruent
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| Rhombus | Parallelogram with four congruent sides
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| Rectangle | Parallelogram with four right angles
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| Square | Parallelogram with four congruent sides and four right angles
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| Kite | Quadrilateral with two pair adjacent sides congruent and no opposite sides congruent
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| Trapezoid | Quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides
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| Isosceles Trapezoid | Trapezoid whose nonparallel sides are congruent
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| Right Trapezoid | Trapezoid with two right angles
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| Pentagon | Five sided polygon, five angles, five vertices
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| Hexagon | Six sided polygon, six angles, six vertices
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| Heptagon | Seven sided polygon, seven angles, seven vertices
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| Octagon | Eight sided polygon, eight angles, eight vertices
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| Nonagon | Nine sided polygon, nine angles, nine vertices
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| Decagon | Ten sided polygon, ten angles, ten vertices
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| Dodecagon | Twelve sides, twelve angles, twelve vertices
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| n-gon | n sides, n angles, n vertices
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