Meanings
plural exagons
- A six-sided figure; hexagon.
Around this facet G looks like an exagon (diagram 1).
1988, Joan S. Birman, Anatoly Libgober, Braids, page 6812 more examples
In the exagon, an equilateral triangle is made upon each of the sides. The octagon may be traced in the same manner as the exagon ; that is, by making an equilateral triangle upon each side : but as this construction is difficult in the practice, the author gives the following: find the square one ABCD as before; divide each of the sides AE, DE, into 3 = parts, and make upon the distance between the points of the division G, H, next to the point E, an equilateral triangle, which forms the angle GLH.
1773, Louis-André de La Mamie Clairac, The field engineer of M. le Chevalier de Clairac, page 25The hypotetical structure we consider is a two dimensional one, and is built up of exagons,
1997, Massimiliano Giona, Giuseppe Biardi, Fractals and Chaos in Chemical Engineering, →ISBN
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