polygonhoodとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

polygonhood (uncountable)

1. (mathematics, まれに) The state of being a polygon.
   • 1991, Richard R. Brockhaus, Pulling up the ladder: the metaphysical roots of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, ISBN 0812691253, page 195:

     However, the circle lacks an essential property of polygonhood, namely having angles, and thus as a convenient fiction we refer to it as a degenerate case of a polygon.

   • 1997, W.S. Anglin, The Philosophy of Mathematics: the Invisible Art, ISBN 0773487069, page 11:

     None the less, for any natural number n > 3, there is a form of n-hood, and a form of n-sided polygon-hood. For example, when n = 4, we have the form of fourness and the form of squareness.

   • 2008, Stephen Yablo, Thoughts: Papers on mind, meaning and modality, ISBN 0199266468, page 267:

     To the absolutionist, this can only mean that as n decreases, the property of n-sided regular polygonhood puts stronger and stronger demands on those would seek to know it.

同意語

• polygonality
• polygonness