hexagon

See also: Hexagon, hexàgon, and hexagón

English

A regular hexagon

Etymology

From Latin hexagōnum, from Ancient Greek ἑξάγωνον (hexágōnon). By surface analysis, hexa- +‎ -gon. Piecewise doublet of sexagon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: hĕk'səgən, IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡən/
• (US) enPR: hĕk'səgŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈhɛk.sə.ɡɑn/

• Audio (Canada):

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• Hyphenation: hex‧a‧gon

Noun

hexagon (plural hexagons)

2. (geometry) A polygon with six sides and six angles.

   Synonyms: 6-gon, hexangle (archaic), sexagon, sexangle (archaic)

   Hypernyms: polygon < shape; see also Thesaurus:polygon

   Meronyms: angle, side; see also Thesaurus:polygon

   Coordinate terms: triangle (3), quadrilateral (4), pentagon (5), heptagon (7), octagon (8), nonagon (9), decagon (10); see also Thesaurus:polygon

   • 2019 October 25, Konstantin Toropin, “A woman found an unfinished, 20-year-old quilt and complete strangers are helping piece it together”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 October 2019:

     The project was a huge, queen-size quilt made up of 100 hexagon pieces – 50 of them embroidered with a design for every US state and 50 stars. […] Once the designs are all stitched and the hexagons are returned to Downey, they will be assembled into the completed quilt.

   • 2023 November 9, Christopher Ingram, ““Weathergami” charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate”, in Minnesota Reformer‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 March 2024:

     If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.

Derived terms

• Brianchon hexagon
• flexagon
• hexagonal
• Lemoine hexagon
• Pappus's hexagon theorem
• pseudohexagon
• quasihexagon
• Tucker hexagon

Related terms

• hexagram (type of 6-pointed star)

Translations

A polygon with six sides and six angles

• Afrikaans: heksagoon, seshoek (af)
• Albanian: gjashtëkëndësh (sq) m
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: алтытолык (altïtolïk)

• Arabic: مُسَدَّس (musaddas)
• Armenian: վեցանկյուն (hy) (vecʻankyun)
• Asturian: hexágonu m
• Bengali: ষড়ভুজ (bn) (śoṛobhuj)
• Bulgarian: шестоъгълник (bg) m (šestoăgălnik)
• Burmese: ဆက္ကဂံ (my) (hcakka.gam), ဆဋ္ဌဂံ (my) (hcathta.gam)
• Catalan: hexàgon (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六邊形 / 六边形 (zh) (liùbiānxíng), 六角形 (zh) (liùjiǎoxíng)

• Czech: šestiúhelník (cs) m inan
• Danish: sekskant c
• Dutch: zeshoek (nl) m
• East Frisian Low German: seskâant m
• Esperanto: seslatero, heksagono, sesangulo
• Faroese: sekshyrningur m
• Finnish: kuusikulmio (fi), heksagoni (fi)
• French: hexagone (fr) m
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: Sokshuk m (Sylt)

  Saterland Frisian: Säkskaant n

  West Frisian: seishoek c

• Friulian: esagon m
• Galician: hexágono (gl) m
• Georgian: ექვსკუთხედი (ekvsḳutxedi)
• German: Sechseck (de) n, 6-Eck n, Hexagon (de) n
• Greek: εξάγωνο (el) m (exágono)

  Ancient Greek: ἑξάγωνον n (hexágōnon)

• Gujarati: ષટ્કોણ (gu) (ṣaṭkoṇ)
• Hebrew: מְשׁוּשֶּׁה (he) m (meshushé)
• Hindi: षट्कोण (hi) m (ṣaṭkoṇ)
• Hungarian: hatszög (hu)
• Icelandic: sexhyrningur m
• Ido: hexagono (io)
• Indonesian: segi enam
• Irish: heicseagán m
• Italian: esagono (it) m
• Japanese: 六角形 (ja) (ろっかくけい, rokkakukei)
• Kannada: ಷಟ್ಕೋನ (kn) (ṣaṭkōna)
• Kazakh: алтыбұрыш (altıburıš)
• Khmer: ឆកោណ (km) (chɑkaon)
• Korean: 육각형 (ko) (yukgakhyeong)
• Kumyk: алты мююшлюк (altı müyuşlük)
• Lao: ຫົກແຈ (hok chǣ), ຫົກຫຼ່ຽມ (hok līam)
• Latin: hexagōnum n
• Latvian: sešstūris m
• Lithuanian: šešiakampis m
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: шеста́голник m (šestágolnik)
• Malay:

  Rumi: heksagon (ms)

• Malayalam: ഷഡ്ഭുജം (ml) (ṣaḍbhujaṁ)
• Māori: tapaono
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: hastą́ągo bízniikʼą́, hastą́ą́góó adeezʼá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heksagon m, sekskant m

  Nynorsk: heksagon m, sekskant m

• Odia: ଛକୋଣି (or) (chakoṇi)
• Persian: شش‌گوشه (šeš-guše), مسدس (fa)
• Polish: sześciokąt (pl) m, sześciobok (pl)
• Portuguese: hexágono (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਛੇਭੁਜ (chebhuj)
• Russian: шестиугольник (ru) m (šestiugolʹnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: šesterokut (sh)
• Shan: ႁူၵ်းၸဵင်ႇ (húuk tsàeng)
• Slovak: šesťuholník m
• Slovene: šestkotnik m, šesterokotnik m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šesćrožk m

  Upper Sorbian: šěsćróžk m, šesćiróžk m, heksagon m

• Spanish: hexágono (es) m
• Swahili: heksagoni
• Swedish: hexagon (sv) c, sexhörning (sv) c
• Tagalog: eksagono, nimsiha, animang-gilid
• Tamil: அறுகோணம் (ta) (aṟukōṇam)
• Telugu: షడ్భుజి (te) (ṣaḍbhuji)
• Thai: หกเหลี่ยม (th) (hòk-lìiam)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: altıgen (tr), müseddes (tr)
• Ukrainian: шестику́тник m (šestykútnyk)
• Uzbek: musaddas (uz)
• Vietnamese: lục giác (vi), hình sáu cạnh
• Welsh: chweongl m, hecsagon m
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: unxasithupha class 1a/2a

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hexagone.

Noun

hexagon n (plural hexagoane)

1. hexagon

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	hexagon	hexagonul	hexagoane	hexagoanele
genitive-dative	hexagon	hexagonului	hexagoane	hexagoanelor
vocative	hexagonule		hexagoanelor