Hexagon
/ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A polygon with six sides and six angles.
"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."
- 2 a six-sided polygon wordnet
Example
More examples"A triangle has three angles, and a hexagon has six angles."
Etymology
From Latin hexagōnum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάγωνον (hexágōnon). By surface analysis, hexa- + -gon. Piecewise doublet of sexagon.