hexagon
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"Given Saturn's symmetry in its north-south jet stream system, we have been searching for a counterpart to Saturn's northern hexagon on the south pole in Hubble images since 1990," Sánchez-Lavega said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Down the side of the ring, there are personalized touches, with each team member’s last name and number displayed around a hexagon shape inspired by Dodger Stadium’s unique scoreboards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
Not only do they offer high-quality, fresh, organic spices, but their magnetic hexagon jars are beautiful to display.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2024
Stripped of their brown paint and polished, each fragment will weigh 18 grams, or just over half an ounce, and be fashioned into a hexagon — the shape of France.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
I lean toward the next hexagon cell to see Rubio wide awake, head propped by his elbow.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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The scoreboards in Ontario, he said, are planned as hexagons — just like the ones at Dodger Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2024
Because hBN is a series of repeating hexagons, the technique only produces straight or angled lines meeting at either 60° or 120° at the moment, though Chen thinks combining them into triangles should be possible.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
Ridges of radiating lines that are designed to reflect light, a nod to Paris’ nickname as the City of Light, surround the hexagons.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
At the Richmond, California, plant of the company Coherent, an assembly line is polishing three 1.5-meter mirrors each month before trimming them into hexagons.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 17, 2023
In the bathroom, I stared at the white tile hexagons on the floor and saw nothing but the crud in between them.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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Vocabulary lists containing hexagon
Geometry - Introductory
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The ACT Math Test: Geometry, List 2
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Geometry - Middle School
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