Meanings
plural hexacles
- A circumscribed hexagram.
Regular stellate polyhedra are the three- dimensional analogue to the stars (pentacle, hexacle, etc.) in the plane (Figure 32A and B).
1967, Harold Andrew Elliott, Numbers, shapes, and patterns, page 1761 more example
The example developed in Figures 3 an 4 envisages a hexacle, with arms representing the specific requirements or tolerances of named algae to separae variable characters of the environment.
2013, M. Alvarez-Cobelas, editor, Phytoplankton and Trophic Gradients: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop of the International Association of Phytoplankton Taxonomy & Ecology (IAP), held in Granada, Spain, 21–29 June 1996
Origin
First used in the 20th century; based upon the word pentacle and the most recent definition thereof ("a circumscribed pentagram"), applying the same word format to the word "hexagram".
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