SINCE 1828
hexagonal
adjective
hex·ag·o·nal
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Definition of hexagonal
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: 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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Other Words from hexagonal
hexagonally
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The body is placed in a reusable hexagonal steel container with wood chips, alfalfa and straw to accelerate decomposition. — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, "Bury me not: A plea for Illinois to allow 'human composting'," 11 June 2019 Lending further weirdness to the exterior design are a floating vent high up on each C-pillar and a tessellated hexagonal mesh sun shade over the rear window. — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, "BMW Reproduces Lost 1970 Garmisch Concept by Calling In Its Original Designer ,Marcello Gandini," 24 May 2019 Ingels’s hexagonal world on the ocean’s surface comprises individual units that are systematically combined to create a city. — Samantha Swenson, ELLE Decor, "Is Oceanix City by Bjarke Ingels the Real-Life Lost Continent of Atlantis?," 12 Apr. 2019 Collectively termed metal dichalcogenides, these materials form single-molecule sheets with a hexagonal arrangement of atoms similar to graphene. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Researchers make RAM from a phase change we don’t entirely understand," 18 Dec. 2018 The Griffin featured at AUSA also has a blocky, hexagonal camouflage system designed to reduce the vehicle’s acoustic and thermal signatures. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "One of These 3 Tanks Will Replace the U.S. Army’s M2 Bradley," 10 Oct. 2018 The back of the Nokia 9 sports a unique penta-lens array of cameras, plus a sensor and a flash, arranged in a neat hexagonal pattern. — Michael Simon, PCWorld, "Nokia 9 PureView hands-on: All of the cameras and none of the gimmicks," 24 Feb. 2019 That ice in your soda is technically known as ice-I in which water molecules are arranged in a hexagonal shape. — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, "Scientists Find Diamond Full of an Alien Form of Ice," 9 Mar. 2018 Such impurities don’t fit in the regular hexagonal structure of ice that forms as water freezes. — Maya Wei-haas, Smithsonian, "The Slick Science of Making Olympic Snow and Ice," 1 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hexagonal.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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