wielokty

Wielokty is not a standard term in Polish. The correct, widely used word in geometry is wielokąty, the plural of wielokąt, which denotes polygons. The form “wielokty” may appear as a misspelling, a dialectal variant, or an OCR error, but it is not accepted as the proper name for polygonal figures. The underlying concept—figures formed by straight sides connected to enclose a plane region—remains the same.

Etymology and usage: the word is built from the root wiel- meaning “many” and kąt meaning “angle,” reflecting a figure with many angles. In standard mathematical language, one speaks of wielokąty or, in singular, wielokąt. The plural form in correct spelling is wielokąty, with the diacritic on the a.

In geometry, polygons are two-dimensional figures bounded by a closed chain of straight line segments. They are commonly classified by the number of sides: trójkąt (3 sides), czterokąt or czworokąt (4 sides), pięciokąt (5 sides), sześciokąt (6 sides), and so on. The interior angle sum of a simple polygon with n sides is (n−2)×180 degrees. Regular polygons have all sides and all interior angles equal, with exterior angles summing to 360 degrees.

Related concepts include convex and concave polygons, simple and complex polygons (self-intersecting), and techniques for computing area, perimeter, and interior angles. While “wielokty” may be encountered in informal writing or errors, the academically correct term remains wielokąty.