Hexagon

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  • noun. A polygon with six sides and six angles.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A plane figure of six angles.
  • noun. a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A polygon with six sides and six angles.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a six-sided polygon
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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