what is the name of the square-like shape that is slightly larger at the bottom. (it slants out)?
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a trapezoid.\n   __\n  /__&#92;
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It's half the diameter.
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its cone shaped like an airplane or jet
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The term is oblate spheroid I believe. Get that extra credit!
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Well, in geometry, a 20 sided shape is called a Icosagon, so 20x could be icosuple but I've never heard of that word!
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Pentagon It has a bottom and then two lines that go up and a point at the top. Kinda like a triangle without a bottom.
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a right angled isosceles triangle\n\nplease give me 10 points now
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a plate folded like a prism
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sit with your legs slanted to the side with closed legs
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The top is the narrow end and the bottom is the larger one.
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slightly - it's not perfectly spherical.
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Almost a coicle!\nEach side would subtend an anhle of slightly more than 1.5degrees so it is very close to a circle. I don't think it has any official name.
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There are two names for a seven sided shape, heptagon and septagon.  Both answers are equally correct
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maybe a hexagonal prism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_prism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prism_%28geometry%29
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smaller.  you are so far away you can't see the bottom, only the top half or so.
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ok, lets make this simple.\n\nIf a shape can be folded over itself and cover itself exactly, the article is said to be symmetrical and the "fold line" is said to be an axis of symmetry.\n\nA square is a symmetrical shape with 4 axis of symmetry, the two diagnals and one line drawn across it half way up, one line drawn down through it, half way across it.\n\nA circle has an infinate nubber of axis of symmetry, each one being a diameter.\n\nOne way to look at this axis is to think of it as a mirror placed on a plain geometrical shape, the reflection is the other half of the shape.
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This shape is called the "omega shape", at least as the lower limb of the sun disappears beneath the apparent horizon (the sun has already set quite a bit farther beneath the horizon and one is only seeing so much of the sun because of refraction effects). It is called an omega because it is not strictly an oval or ellipse at that point, and actually has a pair of "feet" at the bottom like an omega. \n\n The actual shape will vary, depending on refraction effects, and those depend on the temperature profile of the atmospheric layers. The shape is typically computed in a simulation by ray-tracing, although one might be able to do some sort of approximation by an ellipse. See the attached link for more details.