hexagon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a polygon with six sides and six angles

   Each cell in the diagram is a regular hexagon with six equal sides.

Through Latin hexagonum from Greek hexagonon, 'six-angled figure,' formed from hex, 'six,' + gonia, 'angle or corner.' The combining forms survive in hexa- and -gon, as in hexagonal and polygon.

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