5 (number)

natural number

In geometry, a pentagon () is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°.

thumb|upright=1.2|Pentagram A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle around the five points creates a similar symbol referred to as the pentacle, which is used widely by Wiccans and in paganism, or as a sign of life and connections, but there is also a inverted version.

musical scale with 5 pitches per octave

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celebratory hand gesture

intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States

Quinary (base 5 or pental) is a numeral system with five as the base. A possible origination of a quinary system is that there are five digits on either hand.

term used by big-game hunters to refer to large African animals

A pentalogy (from Greek πεντα- penta-, "five" and -λογία -logia, "discourse") is a compound literary or narrative work that is explicitly divided into five parts. Although modern use of the word implies both that the parts are reasonably self-contained and that the structure was intended by the author, historically, neither was necessarily true: in fact, a pentalogia could be assembled by a later editor, just as Plotinus's Enneads were arranged in nines by Porphyry in order to create an overarching structure of six which would express the idea of perfection.

thumb|180px|A quincunx of pips on the five-side of a dice|die A quincunx ( ) is a geometric pattern consisting of five points arranged in a cross, with four of them forming a square or rectangle and a fifth at its center. The same pattern has other names, including "in saltire" or "in cross" in heraldry (depending on the orientation of the outer square), the five-point stencil in numerical analysis, and the five dots tattoo. It forms the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on six-sided dice, playing cards, and dominoes. It is represented in Unicode as or (fo

the five piercing wounds Jesus suffered during the crucifixion, i.e. those in his hands and feet and the lance wound on his side

fictional character from Doctor Who

thumb|right|The Pentapolis on the Adriatic was part of the Exarchate of Ravenna, an administrative unit of the [[Byzantine Empire.Red: The Pentapolis. Orange: Other cities of the Exarchate.]]

geometrically a regular concave decagon, is a common ideogram in modern culture

thumb|Pentagram, a common symbol on a pentacle A pentacle (also spelled and pronounced as pantacle in Thelema, following Aleister Crowley, though that spelling ultimately derived from Éliphas Lévi) is a talisman that is used in magical evocation, and is usually made of parchment, paper, cloth, or metal (although it can be of other materials), upon which a magical design is drawn. Symbols may also be included (sometimes on the reverse), a common one being the six-point form of the Seal of Solomon.

group of five farmed crops, important in ancient China, whose cultivation was regarded as a sacred boon from a mythological or supernatural source

mathematic space with five dimensions

painting by Charles Demuth

1818 alliance of European nations

element of Wiccan ritual

five specific speeches of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew