Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the form of a hexagon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an hexagonal manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a hexagonal manner

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hexagonally.

Examples

  • A circumhorizon arc only forms when the clouds contain a specific, hexagonally shaped ice crystal.

    Celestial Phenomena 2008

  • We're talking about a man who divides his time between a hexagonally shaped, 30,000-square-foot house in New Hampshire and his own island off the coast of Connecticut, which has its own money, flag and navy.

    Chaos Theory: 2003

  • We're talking about a man who divides his time between a hexagonally shaped, 30,000-square-foot house in New Hampshire and his own island off the coast of Connecticut, which has its own money, flag and navy.

    *snort* 2003

  • No matter how far we search, Mklikluln reminded himself, we have no hope of finding those graceful, symmetrical, hexagonally delicate bodies we left behind to bum.

    Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990

  • One was a group of six arranged hexagonally, each hole about thirty feet across.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • Feathered stars, roses set in ferns, rayed trefoils, seaweed-like fronds full of little suns, they have all the same angles and are made hexagonally.

    The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing 1917

  • The other is a fragment; a hexagonally carved stone rests on a square base, and on the faces of both there have been dials.

    The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

  • Although this sudden influx of false nuts had made me amongst the wealthiest resident on my hexagon (Canadian streets are laid out hexagonally), the fact that it wasn't delivered as hard currency meant that it had completely slipped my mind to consider it as income.

    Cracked: All Posts Chris Bucholz 2010

  • Researchers created a library of micromolded, hexagonally spaced elastomeric micropost arrays, one to a few microns high, on which they cultivated cells.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • We used uniform hexagonal grids to represent culture space and composing elements, so a hexagonally shaped ALC in silico approximates a roundish cyst in vitro.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.