Hexagon

//ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

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

Synonyms

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6-gonfigurehexanglesexagonsexanglesextet

Example

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"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.

Related phrases

Brianchon hexagonLemoine hexagonPappus's hexagon theoremTucker hexagonfive sidesflat geometrypolygonal shapesix sidedsix sidesstop sign

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