Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polygon with six sides and six angles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, a figure of six sides and six angles. If it be plane and the sides and angles are equal, it is a regular hexagon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A plane figure of six angles.
- noun a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
polygon withsix sides and six angles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a six-sided polygon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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You can see why the author chose a hexagonal grid for this encryption scheme: the hexagon is the most-sided polygon that yields a regular tessellation of the plane.
Wolfram Blog : Secret Codes in The Wolfram Demonstrations Project (But No Dinosaurs) 2008
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The hexagon is nearly 15,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) across.
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Also, CNN will be using something called "Crimson Hexagon technology," which is critical, because the hexagon is the most sci-fi of all the polygons.
CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Also, CNN will be using something called "Crimson Hexagon technology," which is critical, because the hexagon is the most sci-fi of all the polygons.
CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Also, CNN will be using something called "Crimson Hexagon technology," which is critical, because the hexagon is the most sci-fi of all the polygons.
CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill Jason Linkins 2010
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Also, CNN will be using something called "Crimson Hexagon technology," which is critical, because the hexagon is the most sci-fi of all the polygons.
CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Also, CNN will be using something called "Crimson Hexagon technology," which is critical, because the hexagon is the most sci-fi of all the polygons.
CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Also, CNN will be using something called "Crimson Hexagon technology," which is critical, because the hexagon is the most sci-fi of all the polygons.
CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill Jason Linkins 2010
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Of the three figures, the hexagon is the most proper for convenience and strength.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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The hexagon is a six-sided figure which, if inscribed in a circle, will have each of its sides equal to the radius of that circle (Fig. 206).
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