Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexacts
Literary usage of Hexacts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... hexacts with axes running to a point. ... hexacts with axes enlarged at the
extremity. ... hexacts with axes branching into rays at their extremity. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1899)
"... consist of sword shaped hexacts, which are so numerous as to suggest the ...
also sword-shaped hexacts without bundles of accessory acicular spicules. ..."
3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1889)
"peculiarly modified hexacts, as shown in figures 2 and 4 of the accompanying cut.
In figure 2 we have an arrangement somewhat like that usual among the ..."
4. The Philosophy of Belief: Or, Law in Christian Theology by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1896)
"... than the regular hexacts disposed in such a way that one radial ray unites
the bounding lamellae V And so at last a latticed network is produced, ..."
5. The Philosophy of Belief by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1896)
"... these circumstances no more advantageous form of spicule for the support of
such simple, loose body, could be devised than the regular hexacts disposed ..."
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