polyhexn.
/ˈpɒlɪhɛks/, U.S. /ˈpɑliˌhɛks/ Geometry.
A planar shape formed by joining a number of identical regular hexagons by their edges.
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1967 Sci. Amer. June 124/3 Other names have been proposed, but it seems to me that the best is ‘polyhexes’, the name adopted by David Klarner, who was one of the first to investigate them.
1975 Sci. Amer. July 114/3 Combinatorial geometers have given special attention in recent years to tiling with polyominoes and their cousins the polyiamonds and polyhexes.
1993 Amer. Math. Monthly Apr. 416 Figures formed not with unit squares but with equilateral triangles (polyiamonds) or regular hexagons (polyhexes).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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