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US
/hɛkˈsæɡənəɫ/
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[ UK /hɛksˈæɡənəl/ ]
[ UK /hɛksˈæɡənəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having six sides or divided into hexagons
How To Use hexagonal In A Sentence
- This arrangement is referred to as "hexagonal closest packing;" something often seen in honeycombs or oranges stacked at a fruit stand. Matt J. Rossano: Are Infinities More Scientific Than God?
- Certain corals, for example, build structures with hexagonal symmetry, but not in seafloor sediment.
- It was a hexagonal glass structure with a high domed roof.
- Assuming aggregation happens on the cell surface, we choose a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice.
- Many conclude that because pyrite is cubic, pyrrhotite must be hexagonal, as it often appears.
- The first series were full of elaborate, post-nouvelle cuisine dishes - black hexagonal plates, kiwi fruit garnishes, elaborate vegetable combinations, home-made biscuits and endless other little fiddly bits.
- In the lamello-columnar phase obtained at low salt concentration, NCPs order into either a two-dimensional columnar hexagonal phase or into three-dimensional orthorhombic (quasi-hexagonal) crystals.
- Hexagonal bR crystals of space group P6 3 often exhibit a perfect hemihedral twinning.
- These are, in order of decreasing symmetry, the cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal, trigonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, and triclinic systems.
- Their molds demonstrate that lenses were numerous, biconvex, hexagonal in outline and arranged in an hexagonal close-packing system.