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hexagonal
/hɛkˈsæɡənəl/
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What does hexagonal mean?
adjective
- Having six edges, or having a cross-section in the form of a hexagon.
- Having three equal axes which cross at 60° angles, and an unequal axis which crosses the others at 90° angle.
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IPA pronunciation
/hɛkˈsæɡənəl/
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They were all to be made of cast-steel, and the nuts had to be cut to exact hexagonal form.
The hexagonal or coffin-shaped kite is more reliable than the old sort, and is quite as cheap and as easily made.
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The columns, roughly hexagonal and weathered to a dull-red, stood above in sheer perpendicular lines of six hundred and sixty feet in altitude.
All sorts of systems and inventions would be tried, until long experience, aided by geometry, should show them that the hexagonal shape is the best.
Some gardens are planted in fairly straight rows, some are laid-out in carefully calculated interplanted hexagonal successions and some are a wild scattering of catch-as-catch-can.