hexagonal
adjective
hex·ag·o·nal
hek-ˈsa-gə-nᵊl 
1
: having six angles and six sides
2
: having a hexagon as section or base
3
: relating to or being a crystal system characterized by three equal lateral axes intersecting at angles of 60 degrees and a vertical axis of variable length at right angles
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Design: Don't Mess With a Good Thing The 27-inch MSI shares just about all of its design features with its 32-inch sibling, including a thin screen, a hexagonal stand, and a kiss of RGB lighting on its back controlled by MSI's Mystic Light software.
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PCMAG, 9 July 2024
After passing through their hind gut, their excrement exits their body past their rectal pads—which compress the frass, AKA poop, into hexagonal prisms!
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 3 July 2024
The 1,400-square-foot house, on a rocky bluff jutting into Carmel Bay, has a hexagonal living room and stone masonry walls shaped like a ship’s prow cutting through the waves.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
His 1958 home for patron Joe Price, for example, incorporated a hexagonal conversation pit covered in shag carpet, and his 1967 Nicol House in Kansas City, Missouri, featured an octagonal conversation pit surrounded by octagonal bedrooms.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 28 June 2024
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PCMAG, 9 July 2024
After passing through their hind gut, their excrement exits their body past their rectal pads—which compress the frass, AKA poop, into hexagonal prisms!
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 3 July 2024
The 1,400-square-foot house, on a rocky bluff jutting into Carmel Bay, has a hexagonal living room and stone masonry walls shaped like a ship’s prow cutting through the waves.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
His 1958 home for patron Joe Price, for example, incorporated a hexagonal conversation pit covered in shag carpet, and his 1967 Nicol House in Kansas City, Missouri, featured an octagonal conversation pit surrounded by octagonal bedrooms.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 28 June 2024
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hexagonal
adjective
hex·ag·o·nal
hek-ˈsag-ən-ᵊl
1
: having six angles and six sides
2
: having a hexagon as a section or base
a hexagonal prism
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