hexacle

English

Etymology

First used in the 20th century; based upon the word pentacle and the most recent definition thereof ("a circumscribed pentagram"), applying the same word format to the word "hexagram".

Noun

hexacle (plural hexacles)

1. A circumscribed hexagram.
   • 1967, Harold Andrew Elliott, Numbers, shapes, and patterns, page 176:

     Regular stellate polyhedra are the three- dimensional analogue to the stars (pentacle, hexacle, etc.) in the plane (Figure 32A and B).

   • 2013, M. Alvarez-Cobelas, editor, Phytoplankton and Trophic Gradients: Proceedings of the 10th Workshop of the International Association of Phytoplankton Taxonomy & Ecology (IAP), held in Granada, Spain, 21–29 June 1996:

     The example developed in Figures 3 an 4 envisages a hexacle, with arms representing the specific requirements or tolerances of named algae to separae variable characters of the environment.