What is "hexagonal"

Usage examples of "hexagonal".

Joe tromped loudly into the house and transferred the twelve birdlets from bis pockets into an old-fashioned, hexagonal glass-paneled ballot jar which he had bought for five bucks at a Monte Vista, Colorado, auction.

The windows which look into the garden, like those that look upon the court-yard, are mullioned in stone with hexagonal leaded panes, and are draped by curtains, with heavy valances and stout cords, of an ancient stuff of crimson silk with gold reflections, called in former days either brocatelle or small brocade.

On the inside, the petals were studded with hundreds of black-and-silver hexagonal irradiator nozzles.

The council room was a cavernous, hexagonal chamber built of oak and stone with its cathedral ceiling peaked starlike overhead at a joinder of massive beams.

Those huge hexagonal blocks must contain some sort of living creatures-- something already huge, perhaps the pupal forms of unimaginable giants.

Outwardly this formation resembled quartz in that it crystallized in the trigonal trapezohedral class of the rhombohedral subsystem of hexagonal symmetry.

Each consisted of hexagonal rhombohedrons, the largest over three meters in length and almost half a meter in diameter.

But when it hit a Rix tank just right, its maw precisely aligned to the hexagonal weave of the armor, it cut through metal and ceramic like a rip propagating down a cloth seam.

Leap Chairs and strange, hexagonal, filmy office sets, featuring spandex light shades and tiltable desks.

On awakening and recalling this dream fragment, Kekule realized instantly that the solution to the benzene problem was a hexagonal ring of carbon atoms rather than a straight chain.

Six smaller white dots corresponded to the positions of the unmanned probes, arrayed in a hexagonal formation between the pulsar and the general direction of Mestiko.

I caught one by its rim, and it was the span of my spread hand, with six spokes radiating out from a hexagonal center, each branching and rebranching into finer networks, until the rim was another finely wrought hexagon.

The ice crystals that produce halos are hexagonal, shaped sort of like unsharpened pencils with no erasers.

I mounted my bike and continued on, heading toward the ships as directly as the hexagonal network of bikeways permitted.

The ground was littered with micalike hexagonal fragments, like tiny odd geometric forms from some bizarre workshop, many of which were fairly sharp, making walking difficult.