chiliagon

chiliagon
noun /ˈkɪlɪæɡən/
(rare) A polygon with a thousand vertices and a thousand edges.

, 1995: If Kants claim is just that it is impossible to have a sensory experience of the absence of space, then by contrast it is not impossible to have a sensory experience of a chiliagon. — Lorne Falkenstein, Kants Intuitionism (Toronto 2004, p. 198)


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