Definition of hexagonal in English:
hexagonal
adjective hɛkˈsaɡ(ə)n(ə)lhɛkˈsæɡənəl
1Relating to or constituting a hexagon; having six straight sides and six angles.
small, hexagonal pockets of honeycomb
Example sentencesExamples
- The spanner is used to tighten the hexagonal nut.
- The project leader says hexagonal pixels give smoother edges in images than square pixels.
- The most distinctive item in the collection is the hexagonal vase.
- Double-panelled doors lead to a hexagonal dining room.
- Over the banister, visitors saw the top of an elegant structure, narrow at the base, with an inner hexagonal column.
- There are over a dozen pen-and-wash studies of figures in oval or hexagonal frames.
- It was a hexagonal glass structure with a high domed roof.
- Insect compound eyes are made up of many hexagonal lenses.
- After ripping out red linoleum, they finished the room with black-and-white hexagonal floor tile.
- The floor was laid with tiny hexagonal tiles.
- 1.1 Of or denoting a crystal system or three-dimensional geometrical arrangement having three axes of equal length separated by 60° and a fourth axis of a different length at right angles to these.
a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure
Example sentencesExamples
- These quartz crystals from Cumberland appear to possess normal hexagonal symmetry.
- Cystine crystals are clear, colorless hexagonal plates, often appearing in layers.
- The inner core is pure iron in a hexagonal close-packed crystalline form.
- Pure phase zirconium exists in a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure.
- Each molecule has on average six neighbors, generating a six-fold hexagonal symmetry.
- We applied a swelling method to help determine the relative phases of the diffraction peaks along the crystal axis perpendicular to the hexagonal base.
Derivatives
adverbhɛkˈsaɡ(ə)n(ə)li
Osmium is heavy, metallic, and has hexagonally organized atoms.
Example sentencesExamples
- Structurally, graphite consists of sheets of carbon atoms linked hexagonally like chicken wire.
- As the protein concentration is increased further, there is a sharp transition from a disordered fluid to a hexagonally ordered crystal.
- Thicker hexagonally shaped ice crystals indicate a higher concentration of ice-growth inhibitors.
- The carbon atoms arranged themselves as layered sheets of hexagonally bonded atoms.
Rhymes
diagonal, heptagonal, octagonal, tetragonal
Definition of hexagonal in US English:
hexagonal
adjectivehɛkˈsæɡənəlhekˈsaɡənəl
1Of or pertaining to a hexagon.
small, hexagonal pockets of honeycomb
Example sentencesExamples
- After ripping out red linoleum, they finished the room with black-and-white hexagonal floor tile.
- Insect compound eyes are made up of many hexagonal lenses.
- It was a hexagonal glass structure with a high domed roof.
- The spanner is used to tighten the hexagonal nut.
- The floor was laid with tiny hexagonal tiles.
- The project leader says hexagonal pixels give smoother edges in images than square pixels.
- The most distinctive item in the collection is the hexagonal vase.
- There are over a dozen pen-and-wash studies of figures in oval or hexagonal frames.
- Double-panelled doors lead to a hexagonal dining room.
- Over the banister, visitors saw the top of an elegant structure, narrow at the base, with an inner hexagonal column.
- 1.1 (of a solid) having a section that is a hexagon; constructed on a base that is a hexagon.
- 1.2 Designating or pertaining to a crystal system in which three coplanar axes of equal length are separated by 60° and a fourth axis of a different length is at right angles to these.
a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure
Example sentencesExamples
- Pure phase zirconium exists in a hexagonal close-packed crystal structure.
- Cystine crystals are clear, colorless hexagonal plates, often appearing in layers.
- We applied a swelling method to help determine the relative phases of the diffraction peaks along the crystal axis perpendicular to the hexagonal base.
- The inner core is pure iron in a hexagonal close-packed crystalline form.
- Each molecule has on average six neighbors, generating a six-fold hexagonal symmetry.
- These quartz crystals from Cumberland appear to possess normal hexagonal symmetry.
- 1.3 (of a mineral) crystallizing in a hexagonal system.