Hexagon

Quick meaning: Hexagon is a noun meaning (geometry) A polygon with six sides and six angles.

Meaning

(geometry) A polygon with six sides and six angles.

Example Sentences

The project was a huge, queen-size quilt made up of 100 hexagon pieces – 50 of them embroidered with a design for every US state and 50 stars. […] Once the designs are all stitched and the hexagons are returned to Downey, they will be assembled into the completed quilt.

If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for hexagon

Depending on context, synonyms include hexangle, sexagon, sexangle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sexagon, heptagon, octagon, dihectagon, quadrangle, pentagon.

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