hex
Witch's bad mojo
Hex has two unrelated sources in English.
One gives us a curse or spell, from Pennsylvania German folk magic: Someone put a hex on me.
To hex is to curse or bewitch.
The other hex is short for hexadecimal—the base-16 number system used in computing, where digits run 0–9 then A–F: The color code is in hex.
Six-sided closed figure
- six-sidedHaving six faces
- polygonMultisided plane figure
- verticesCorner points of shapes
- edgesOuter limits or boundaries
tessellation · honeycomb · tiling · symmetry · regular · irregular · angle · perimeter
Curse bringing misfortune
- evil eyeHarm-dealing gaze, supposedly
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
- baneCause of destruction
- voodooFolk magic, often Caribbean
spell · malediction · doom · affliction · blight · omen · curse · bewitch
Sixteen-digit numeral system
- binaryConsisting of two parts
- byteDigital information unit
- digitSingle numeric character
- encodingConverting data to format
ASCII · color code · RGB · HTML · programmer · debugging · memory address · machine code
hexagon
Six-sided closed figure
edges · tessellation · honeycomb · tiling · symmetry · regular · irregular · angle · perimeter · area
jinx
Curse bringing misfortune
- evil eyeHarm-dealing gaze, supposedly
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
- baneCause of destruction
voodoo · spell · malediction · doom · affliction · blight · omen · curse · bewitch · bad luck
hexadecimal
Sixteen-digit numeral system
encoding · ASCII · color code · RGB · HTML · programmer · debugging · memory address · machine code · nibble
Allen wrench
L-shaped hexagonal tool
Settlers of Catan
Resource trading board game
adjacency · strategy · placement · capture · movement · wargame · tabletop · Civilization · token · counter
- witchcraftwitch, spell, spellwork, witches, spells
- arcanagrimoire, spellbook, incantation, enchantment, arcanum
- cursescurse, curses, jinx, jinxes, damn
- evil eyeevil eye, evil eye bead, evil eye charm, hamsa, hamsa hand
- supernatural phenomenalevitation, telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, apparition
- color sciencecolor space, colorimetry, color gamut, chromaticity, chroma
hexblessing
Prayer seeking divine favor
bless · benediction · charm · ward · consecration