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octagon (iou) and axiomatic (iou)


octagon (iou)



octagon noun & adjective. Also octogon. L16.
[Latin octagonum, octo- noun, octagonos, octo- adjective, from Greek octagonon use as noun of oktagonos eight-cornered, formed as OCTA-, OCTO-: see -GON.]
A. noun. A plane figure with eight straight sides and eight angles; a building or object of octagonal shape or cross-section. L16.
b. adjective. = OCTAGONAL. L17.

axiomatic (iou)



axiomatic adjective & noun. L18.
[Greek axiomatikos, from axiomat-, -ma: see AXIOM, -ATIC.]
A. adjective.
Self-evident; indisputably true; of the Nature of a maxim. L18.
H. Spencer These axiomatic truths are truths recognized by the simplest order of reasoning. N. Gordimer It's axiomatic the faults you see in others are often your own.
Characterized by self-evident principles. E19.
H. Davy He gave an axiomatic form to the Science.
Full of maxims, aphoristic. M19.
Southey The most axiomatic of English Poets.
b. noun. In pl. (usu. treated as sing.). A body of axioms; the study or use of axioms. E20.