Pentagon Definition–noun | 1. | a polygon having five angles and five sides. |
| 2. | the Pentagon, | a. | a building in Arlington, Virginia, having a plan in the form of a regular pentagon, containing most U.S. Defense Department offices. |
| b. | the U.S. Department of Defense; the U.S. military establishment. |
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large five-sided building in Arlington county, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., that serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, including all three military services-Army, Navy, ...
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papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968 and that were commissioned in 1967 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. They were turned over ...
Rocroi
ancient fortress town, Ardennes departement, Champagne-Ardennes region, northeastern France. It lies 4 miles (6 km) from the Belgian frontier. The great bastions surrounding the small town in the ...
water net
alga of the genus Hydrodictyon, sometimes found on the surface of quiet ponds as a free-floating network of multinucleate cells arranged in hexagons or pentagons and up to 20 cm (7.9 inches) in total ...
Dellinger, David
American peace activist (b. Aug. 22, 1915, Wakefield, Mass.-d. May 25, 2004, Montpelier, Vt.), embraced pacifism and civil disobedience for much of his life, being imprisoned twice in the early 1940s ...
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American lawyer and government figure (b. Jan. 31, 1920, Webster, Mass.-d. Oct. 31, 2001, Washington, D.C.), while serving as assistant defense secretary for international security affairs-the ...
Gesell, Gerhard A.
U.S. judge (b. June 16, 1910, Los Angeles, Calif.--d. Feb. 19, 1993, Washington, D.C.), upheld citizens' rights over the power of the government while presiding over landmark legal cases, including ...
cluster
Still another kind of particularly stable closed shell occurs in clusters sometimes called network structures. The best-known of these is C60, the 60-atom cluster of carbon atoms. In this cluster the ...
McNamara, Robert S.
U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 who revamped Pentagon operations and who played a major role in the nation's military involvement in Vietnam.Bedford
city, seat of Lawrence county, southern Indiana, U.S., 25 miles (40 km) south of Bloomington. Founded in 1825 as the county seat and named by Joseph Rawlins for his home county of Bedford, Tennessee, ...
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