hexagon

What it means

1. geometryA polygon with six sides and six angles.

   Meronyms: angle, side; see also Thesaurus:polygon

   2 more examples

   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.

   2019 October 25, Konstantin Toropin, “A woman found an unfinished, 20-year-old quilt and complete strangers are helping piece it together”, in CNN, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2019

   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.

   2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024

   Synonyms: 6-gon, hexangle, sexagon, sexangle

In a sentence

Meronyms: angle, side; see also Thesaurus:polygon

Where it comes from

1. Ancient Greekἑξάγωνον
2. Latinhexagōnum
3. Englishhexagon

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