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How to use hexagon in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Hexagon means a polygon with six sides and six angles. Example: “It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.”

More sentences with hexagon

  • It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.From the entry tessellate
  • You can cover the plane with regular hexagons.From the entry cover
  • Regular hexagons can cover the plane.From the entry cover
  • Therefore, the truncated icosahedron is composed of twelve pentagons and twenty hexagons.1989, Tony Rothman, Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions, page 64. From the entry truncated icosahedron
  • Beneath that is a hexagon of windows, like the teetering top of an old wizard’s tower: something Hogwartsy, or Rapunzelesque.2017, Jake Burt, Greetings from Witness Protection!, New York, N.Y.: Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry Hogwartsy
  • Windows in the downface of the hexagon provide light and a view along with privacy and shade in the east-facing building.2003, Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont, North Carolina. From the entry downface
  • Where the five triangles meet to form a vertex is now a pentagon, and a hexagon now replaces each triangular face.1989, Tony Rothman, Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions, page 64. From the entry truncated icosahedron
  • For example, a 46-sided polygon could be called a tetracontakaihexagon, or a combination of “tetracontagon” “kai” (often used in combining names) “hexagon.”2012, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E Svarney, The Handy Math Answer Book, page 184. From the entry tetracontakaihexagon
  • The edges of the octahedron form three squares; the edges of the cuboctahedron form four hexagons, and the edges of the icosidodecahedron form six decagons.2004, David Darling, The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes, page 263. From the entry icosidodecahedron
  • A hexagonal roll, with a row of teeth, about six inches long, abstruding from each of the sides of the hexagon; or a serrated board in place of the teeth.1919, Straits Settlements. Dept, “Bulletin”, in Agriculture. From the entry abstrude

Meaning of hexagon

  1. noun A polygon with six sides and six angles.

Full definition of hexagon

Questions about hexagon in a sentence

How do you use hexagon in a sentence?
Hexagon is used as a noun. For example: “It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.”
What is a short sentence with hexagon?
“Regular hexagons can cover the plane.”
What does hexagon mean?
Hexagon means a polygon with six sides and six angles.

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