Hexagonal Definition

hĕk-săgə-nəl
adjective
Having six sides.
American Heritage
Of, or having the form of, a hexagon.
Webster's New World
Containing a hexagon or shaped like one.
American Heritage
Having a six-sided base or section.
Webster's New World
Designating or of a crystal system having three axes of equal length that intersect in the same plane so as to form six 60° angles and a fourth of any length that intersects the plane of the other three at a right angle.
Webster's New World
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Hexagonal Sentence Examples

  • The substance is usually optically isotropic, though sometimes it exhibits anomalous double refraction; fibrous zinc sulphide which is doubly refracting is to be referred to the hexagonal FIG.

  • On evaporating this solution the hydrated salt CoI 2.6H 2 0 is obtained in hexagonal prisms. It behaves in an analogous manner to CoBr 2.6H 2 0 on heating.

  • The Helena crystals are of tabular habit, being composed of the basal pinacoid with a very short hexagonal prism, whilst at Yogo Gulch many of the crystals affect a rhombohedral habit.

  • The Grey Friars at Lynn, where the tower is hexagonal, is a good example.

  • Moissanite is a rare mineral with a hexagonal crystal structure that occurs in iron-nickel meteorites and may also be called silicon carbide or carborundum in reference to its chemistry.

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