hexagon

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  1. noun A polygon having six sides.

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  • From every side of the hexagon, the steel roof beams slanted upwards to meet each other, about twenty feet above the center of the structure, though stopping short of joining in a point. —  AHMM,March2006
  • If the hexagon was Nat's doing, he might only visit once a year for all I knew. —  AHMM,March2006
  • In one corner of the hexagon was a smaller hex-shaped building that was probably the local House of Healing; in another corner was the Giantsword power generator/broadcaster. —  Triplet
  • In the very center of the hexagon, the surface was blank. —  Death Gate Cycle 2 - Elven Star
  • Now the hexagon that runs through the three discs of the pants in lesson 144, and along the real axis on the Riemann sphere, is just like the hexagon (cyclohedron) from yesterday, bec ... —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
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  1. Latin hexagōnum, from Greek hexagōnos, having six angles : hexa-, hexa- + -gōnos, angled; see -gon.

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  1. from Latin hexagonum, from Greek ἑξάγωνον, neuter of ἑξάγωνος, six-cornered, hexagonal, from ἑξ, = English six, + γωνία, a corner, angle.
 

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/ˈhɛksəgɑn/
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