Meanings
plural sexagons
- geometrySynonym of hexagon (“a polygon with six sides and six angles”).
They might have taken a narrower line of conduct; they might have squeezed out a greater extent of country, and what would have been the end? To build pentagons, sexagons and quintagons — to shew an incessant and provoking spirit of jealousy and bad neighbourhood […]
1794, Jordan's Parliamentary Journal (page 157)Synonyms: hexagon
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of hexagon (“a polygon with six sides and six angles”).
Origin
From sexa- + -gon. Piecewise doublet of hexagon.
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