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pentagon
has definitions from the fields of government,military,mathematics,geometry
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[ noun ] (government) a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense
Used in print (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)Willow_Run , General_Electric 's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse , the Pentagon , Boeing in Seattle , Douglas and Lockheed in Los_Angeles , the new automobile assembly plants everywhere - none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass_rapid_transit . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)When he was in the war , he was in Law or Supplies or something like that , and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals - just like the one we sent_in for Trig - and go_away with a real glow . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (military,government) the United States military establishment
Used in print (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)It is the strategy of blockade , therefore , that is suddenly at the center of attention of administration officials , Members of Congress , officers in the Pentagon . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics,geometry) a five-sided polygon
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