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Hexagon

//ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a six-sided polygon wordnet

Etymology

From Latin hexagōnum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάγωνον (hexágōnon). By surface analysis, hexa- + -gon. Piecewise doublet of sexagon.

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