exagon

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noun

A six-sided figure; hexagon.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounexagon (plural exagons)

plural exagons

  1. A six-sided figure; hexagon.

    Around this facet G looks like an exagon (diagram 1).

    1988, Joan S. Birman, Anatoly Libgober, Braids, page 681
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    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 25

    The 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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