Sexagon

//ˈsɛk.sə.ɡɑn// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of hexagon.

    "They might have taken a narrower line of conduct; they might have squeezed out a greater extent of country, and what would have been the end? To build pentagons, sexagons and quintagons — to shew an incessant and provoking spirit of jealousy and bad neighbourhood […]"

Example

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"They might have taken a narrower line of conduct; they might have squeezed out a greater extent of country, and what would have been the end? To build pentagons, sexagons and quintagons — to shew an incessant and provoking spirit of jealousy and bad neighbourhood […]"

Etymology

From sexa- + -gon. Piecewise doublet of hexagon.

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