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hexagon

[hek-suh-gon, -guhn] / ˈhɛk səˌgɒn, -gən /


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The fighters will use 4-ounce gloves and will face off inside a hexagon cage.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Not only do they offer high-quality, fresh, organic spices, but their magnetic hexagon jars are beautiful to display.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024

In 1975 he conjectured that the optimal packing of n circles is an arrangement in a triangular lattice that forms the shape of a hexagon that is as regular as possible.

From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2023

It’s fascinating how bees know to make it in these symmetrical, hexagon shapes that are luminous and beautiful.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

At lunch and after school they often gathered at a wooden table in the hallway that people called the hex table, even though, as Ian pointed out, it was an octagon, not a hexagon.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater




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