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語源

From Latin hexagōnum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάγωνον (hexágōnon). By surface analysis, hexa- +‎ -gon.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: hĕk'səgən, IPA: /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡən/
• (米国発音) enPR: hĕk'səgŏn, IPA: /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn/
• ハイフネーション: hex‧a‧gon

名詞

hexagon (plural hexagons)

1. (geometry) A polygon with six sides and six angles.
   • 2019 October 25, Konstantin Toropin, “A woman found an unfinished, 20-year-old quilt and complete strangers are helping piece it together”, in CNN‎:

     The project was a huge, queen-size quilt made up of 100 hexagon pieces – 50 of them embroidered with a design for every US state and 50 stars. […] Once the designs are all stitched and the hexagons are returned to Downey, they will be assembled into the completed quilt.

   • 2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer‎:

     If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.

同意語

• 6-gon
• sexagon
• sexangle

派生語

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