Honeycomb design may improve thin-film solar cells.
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Honeycomb
//ˈhʌnikəʊm//
Synonyms for "honeycomb" (135 found)
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Translations
158 translations across 74 languages.
Albanian
4 entries- hoje noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- huall noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- krodhë noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- qengjë noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κηρίον noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- σχαδών noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Arabic
1 entries- قَرْص اَلْعَسَل noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Armenian
1 entries- մեղրախորիսխ noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- şan noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Bashkir
1 entries- күҙәнәк noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Basque
1 entries- aberaska noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Belarusian
1 entries- со́ты noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Bulgarian
4 entries- пита noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- пчелна пита noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- шупла noun (defect in a material where small holes are present; specifically, a defect in concrete consisting of numerous voids)
- надупча verb (to riddle (something) with small holes, especially in a pattern resembling a honeycomb; to cause (something) to become hollow or weakened in this way)
Catalan
1 entries- bresca noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 蜂巢 noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 蜂巢 noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- 蜂窩 /蜂窝 noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Czech
1 entries- plástev noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Dutch
3 entries- bijenraat noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- honingraat noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- raat noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Erzya
1 entries- керяз noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Esperanto
3 entries- mielchelaro noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- mielcxelaro noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- mielĉelaro noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Estonian
2 entries- kärg noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- meekärg noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Faroese
2 entries- vakskaka noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- vakskøka noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Finnish
4 entries- hunaja noun (something resembling honeycomb in sweetness; something desirable or pleasant)
- hunajakenno noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- hunajakenno noun (space-filling packing of polytopes in three- or higher-dimensional space)
- huokoset noun (defect in a material where small holes are present; specifically, a defect in concrete consisting of numerous voids)
French
4 entries- alvéole noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- alvéole d’abeille noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- rayon de miel noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- rayon de ruche noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Galician
4 entries- antena noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- entena noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- favo noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- panal noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Georgian
1 entries- ფუტკრის ფიჭა noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
German
3 entries- Bienenwabe noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- Honigwabe noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- Wabe noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Greek
1 entries- κηρήθρα noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Hindi
2 entries- छत्ता noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- मधु कोष noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Hungarian
1 entries- lép noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Icelandic
1 entries- vaxkaka noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Ido
1 entries- vabo noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Irish
2 entries- cíor mheala noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- criathraigh verb (to riddle (something) with small holes, especially in a pattern resembling a honeycomb; to cause (something) to become hollow or weakened in this way)
Italian
4 entries- cella noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- favo noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- nido noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- nido d'api noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Japanese
4 entries- ハニカム noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- ハニカム noun (something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes)
- 蜂の巣 noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- 蜂巣 noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Jarawa
1 entries- čilemal noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Kazakh
1 entries- ара ұясы noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Korean
2 entries- 벌방 noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- 벌집 noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- аары уясы noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Latin
1 entries- favus noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Latvian
2 entries- kāre noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- šūna noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Lithuanian
1 entries- korys noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Ros noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- Wab noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Macedonian
1 entries- саќе noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Middle English
1 entries- hony comb noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Mongolian
1 entries- зөгийн сархинаг noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Māori
3 entries- honikoma noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- pīhangaiti noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- pihangarua verb (to riddle (something) with small holes, especially in a pattern resembling a honeycomb; to cause (something) to become hollow or weakened in this way)
Navajo
1 entries- tsísʼná bitsiiʼáál noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- şan noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- şane noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- قرنجه noun (defect in a material where small holes are present; specifically, a defect in concrete consisting of numerous voids)
- كومج noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- كومج noun (something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes)
- پتك noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Persian
2 entries- شان noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- شان عسل noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Honnichkorf noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Polabian
1 entries- varťau noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Polish
2 entries- plaster noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- plaster miodu noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Portuguese
1 entries- favo noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Romanian
1 entries- fagure noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Russian
2 entries- со́ты noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- со́ты noun (something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- cìr-mheala noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sat noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- sat noun (something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes)
- saće noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- saće noun (something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes)
Sicilian
2 entries- brisca noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- vrisca noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Slovak
1 entries- plást noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Slovene
2 entries- sat noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- satovje noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Spanish
1 entries- panal noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Swedish
2 entries- bikaka noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- vaxkaka noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Tagalog
1 entries- anila noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Tajik
1 entries- шонаи асал noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Tamil
3 entries- துளைக்கல் noun (defect in a material where small holes are present; specifically, a defect in concrete consisting of numerous voids)
- தேனடை noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- தேன்கூடு noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Thai
1 entries- รังผึ้ง noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྦྲང་ཚང noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Tooro
1 entries- ekisasara class 7 noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Turkish
4 entries- dalak noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- gümeç noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- gümeç noun (something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes)
- petek noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сті́льник noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Urdu
2 entries- مدھو کوش noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- چھتا noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Uzbek
2 entries- asalari uyasi noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- mumkatak noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tảng ong noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Volapük
3 entries- mielaväk noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- mielazioybem noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- mielaziöbem noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Walloon
3 entries- raive noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- raiye di låme noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- tortea d' låme noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
Welsh
2 entries- crwybr noun (substance made by bees primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells; single sheet made up of two layers of this substance)
- crwybr noun (something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes)
Sample sentences
29 total sentences available.
The honeycomb structure gives the scaffolding its sturdiness.
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Beekeepers remove the honeycomb to collect the honey.
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Her lips are more tender than rose-buds, her mouth is sweeter than the honeycomb, and yet that kiss has left a sting sharper than the sting of a bee!
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