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Definition of Hexagonal
1. Adjective. Having six sides or divided into hexagons.
Definition of Hexagonal
1. a. Having six sides and six angles; six- sided.
Definition of Hexagonal
1. Adjective. (geometry) Having six edges, or having a cross-section in the form of a hexagon. ¹
2. Adjective. (crystallography) Having three equal axes which cross at 60° angles, and an unequal axis which crosses the others at 90° angle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hexagonal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hexagonal
1.
Having six sides and six angles; six-sided. Hexagonal system.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hexagonal
Literary usage of Hexagonal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"hexagonal SYSTEM 119. The hexagonal SYSTEM includes all the forms which are
referred to four ... They are called the hexagonal Division and the Trigonal (or ..."
2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"The hexagonal SYSTEM includes two grand divisions : 1. The hexagonal proper, in
which (1) symmetry is by sixes, and multiples of six ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"The following Communications were made to the Society: (1) On Solution and
Crystallization. III. Rhombohedral and hexagonal Crystals. By Prof. ..."
4. A System of Mineralogy: Comprising the Most Recent Discoveries: Including by James Dwight Dana (1854)
"Each solid angle of the hexagonal prism, may be replaced ... 'I The truncation
of the lateral edges of the hexagonal prism leads to a secondary hexagonal ..."
5. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"Referred to the hexagonal axes a face has not three but four indices ... Thus with
hexagonal axes the sum of the first three indices = 0. ..."
6. Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule & Thermodynamics by Walther Nernst (1904)
"12 6 :;s 36 6 •1 Thus: regular and hexagonal 50 %, all other systems 50 %. ...
S5 organic substances there are— regular . quadratic hexagonal . ..."
7. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"Shows hexagonal outline of tubules and concentric radiating arrangementa of interior.
Bristol, &c., Russia (after Lyell). ..."
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