circumscribe
To circumscribe a regular polygon![]()
(such as a triangle, square, pentagon
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, etc.) or a cyclic quadrilateral
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, is to enclose it in a circle so that the vertices of the polygon
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are on the circumference
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of the circle.
For example, a circumscribed square:
One more example, a circumscribed pentagon.