hexagon

«hexagon» in Mova's school dictionary: a flat shape with 6 straight sides and 6 corners — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (hexagon, hexagons)

meaning for a pupil

1) A hexagon is a flat shape with 6 straight sides and 6 corners. A hexagon has 6 sides. tree →

2) A regular hexagon has all 6 sides the same length and all 6 angles the same size (120 degrees each). tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, a shape: 6 sides and 6 corners; perimeter is 6 × side for a regular hexagon; its angles add up to 720 degrees. In science and nature, bees build honeycomb cells as hexagons, and snowflakes have six-fold shapes. In everyday life you see hexagons in floor tiles, nuts and bolts, and pencils with six faces. Phrases: «a regular hexagon», «hexagon-shaped», «hexagonal».

examples

• A hexagon has 6 sides. tree →
• Each side of the hexagon is 4 cm. tree →
• What is its perimeter? tree →
• How many sides do 3 hexagons have? tree →
• The cells of a honeycomb are hexagons. tree →
• The bathroom floor is covered with little white hexagons. tree →
• A nut has a hexagon shape so a spanner can grip it. tree →
• Draw a hexagon and join opposite corners to make 6 triangles. tree →
• A regular hexagon fits together with others without gaps. tree →

note

Plural: hexagons; adjective: hexagonal. Hexagon means 6 (hex = six, gon = angle): sides × 6 for counting, or side length × 6 for the perimeter of a regular one. Trap: do not confuse with a pentagon (5), a heptagon (7) or an octagon (8). Only a regular hexagon has all sides equal; an irregular one still has 6 sides.

In the corpora

• Saturn's north pole has a six-sided jet stream called the hexagon, each side wider than the Earth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hexagon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.