hexagon

From Latin hexagōnum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάγωνον (hexágōnon).^[1] By surface analysis, hexa- +‎ -gon. Piecewise doublet of sexagon.

• (UK) enPR: hĕk'səgən, IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡən/
• (US) enPR: hĕk'səgŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn/

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• Hyphenation: hex‧a‧gon

hexagon (plural hexagons)

2. (geometry) A polygon with six sides and six angles.
   • 2019 October 25, Konstantin Toropin, “A woman found an unfinished, 20-year-old quilt and complete strangers are helping piece it together”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The project was a huge, queen-size quilt made up of 100 hexagon pieces – 50 of them embroidered with a design for every US state and 50 stars. […] Once the designs are all stitched and the hexagons are returned to Downey, they will be assembled into the completed quilt.

   • 2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer‎^[2]:

     If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.

• 6-gon
• hexangle (obsolete)
• sexagon
• sexangle (obsolete)

Borrowed from French hexagone.

hexagon n (plural hexagoane)

1. hexagon