HEXAGONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hexagonal mean? 

• HEXAGONAL (adjective)
  The adjective HEXAGONAL has 1 sense:

1. having six sides or divided into hexagons

  Familiarity information: HEXAGONAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEXAGONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having six sides or divided into hexagons

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

hexagonal; hexangular

Pertainym:

hexagon (a six-sided polygon)

Derivation:

hexagon (a six-sided polygon)

 Context examples 

Organic compounds containing carbon and hydrogen in the form of an unsaturated, usually hexagonal ring structure.

(Aromatic Hydrocarbon, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A family of single-stranded, non-segmented, positive-sense RNA viruses with a hexagonal/spherical capsid and no envelope.

(Calicivirus, NCI Thesaurus)

A hexagonal pattern with a very large surface area, which mimicked the hexagonal organization of a liver lobule, trapped the toxins best.

(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)

The edges of this newly-found vortex appear to be hexagonal, precisely matching a famous and bizarre hexagonal cloud pattern we see deeper down in Saturn's atmosphere.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)

Potentially cancer-causing compound containing carbon and hydrogen in the form of an unsaturated, usually hexagonal, ring structure with one or more nitro-group(s), -NO2, attached to one or more aromatic ring(s).

(Nitroarene Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

Ice exists on Earth almost exclusively in the highly ordered hexagonal crystal structure known as "ice I."

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

The subsequent overlay of several graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) fabrics creates an active region, which enables charge storage.

(Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes, University of Cambridge)

A transparent, beryllium-containing, naturally occurring mineral that forms distinctive hexagonal crystals in a variety of colors due to different impurities that emits toxic fumes of beryllium oxides upon heating and is colorless in its pure form.

(Beryl Ore, NCI Thesaurus)

A new long-term study using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn's northern pole as it nears summertime: a warming, high-altitude vortex with a hexagonal shape, akin to the famous hexagon seen deeper down in Saturn's clouds.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)