Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A polygon having six sides.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In geometry, a figure of six sides and six angles. If it be plane and the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular hexagon.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A plane figure of six angles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a six-sided polygon
Etymologies
- Latin hexagōnum, from Greek hexagōnos, having six angles : hexa-, hexa- + -gōnos, angled; see -gon.
Examples
“You can see why the author chose a hexagonal grid for this encryption scheme: the hexagon is the most-sided polygon that yields a regular tessellation of the plane.”
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“The hexagon is nearly 15,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) across.”
“Also, CNN will be using something called "Crimson Hexagon technology," which is critical, because the hexagon is the most sci-fi of all the polygons.”
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“Of the three figures, the hexagon is the most proper for convenience and strength.”
“The hexagon is a six-sided figure which, if inscribed in a circle, will have each of its sides equal to the radius of that circle (Fig. 206).”
“(For those of you wondering, a hexagon is the one with six sides.)”
“In the center of the hexagon is a market called Mercado 28.”
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“At the bottom of the hexagon is the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, in the constellation of Canis Major, the great dog.”
“The mysterious 'hexagon' occurs at the planet's chilly North Pole and, as we reported in 2008, has been shown to extend deep into Saturn's atmosphere with a 'hotspot' at its core.”
“Anholt has designed a country brand 'hexagon' of six areas on which a country is measured - exports, governance, culture, people, tourism and immigration / investment.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hexagon’.
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shapes
words for shape
( randomness, visual. descriptive )triangular, conical, round, broad, congruous, hexagonal, globular, curved, oval, rectangular, parallel, crumpled and 142 more...
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-gon
having a certain number of angles
hexagon, pentagon, heptagon, octogon, polygonal, septagon, decagon, dodecagon
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hexa-, hex-
six
hexagon, hexagram, hexacontahedron, hexameter, hexacosichoron
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