hexagon

Honeycomb cell form

A hexagon is a six-sided polygon.

Regular hexagons—with equal sides and angles—appear throughout nature and design: honeycomb cells, nuts and bolts, floor tiles.

The shape tessellates perfectly, covering surfaces without gaps.

The bathroom floor was laid with white hexagonal tiles.

nature

honeycomb

Wax matrix of hexagons

organic · crystalline

tessellation

tiling

Surface-covering arrangement

paving · interlocking · seamless · grid · lattice · flooring · backsplash · quilting · parquet · ceramic

geometry

six-sided

Having six faces

  • verticesCorner points of shapes
  • anglesRotation between intersecting lines
  • regularOccurring at fixed intervals

irregular · perimeter · area · diagonals · plane · equilateral · equiangular · convex · concave · circumradius

hardware

bolt

Threaded rod for nuts

  • nutHard-shelled seed
  • wrenchTool for turning fasteners
  • socketHollow receiving cavity

fastener · tool · hardware · mechanical · threading · torque · grip · driver

games

Catan

Resource trading board game

Civilization · tabletop · tokens · adjacency · movement · terrain

synthesis

nitration

Nitro group insertion process

crystallization · purification · precursor · reagent · yield · recrystallization · manufacturing · production

Categories
Opposites
number of sides

hexagontriangle

Three-sided plane figure

pentagon · circle · heptagon · octagon · square

shape geometry

hexagoncircle

Curved closed shape

ellipse · oval · sphere · curve · point

Phrases
Family

hexagonal, hexagons, hexagram, hexagrams, hexagonally

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G