SPHERICAL POLYGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spherical polygon mean? 

• SPHERICAL POLYGON (noun)
  The noun SPHERICAL POLYGON has 1 sense:

1. a figure on the surface of a sphere bounded by arcs of 3 or more great circles

  Familiarity information: SPHERICAL POLYGON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPHERICAL POLYGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A figure on the surface of a sphere bounded by arcs of 3 or more great circles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("spherical polygon" is a kind of...):

polygon; polygonal shape (a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spherical polygon"):

spherical triangle (a spherical polygon formed by the arcs of 3 great circles)