Word Meanings - HEXAGON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A plane figure of six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.

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• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• HEXAGONALLY
  In an hexagonal manner.
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• HEXAGON
  A plane figure of six angles. Regular hexagon, a hexagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides are also all equal.
• PLANE-PARALLEL
  Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• HEXAGONY
  A hexagon. Bramhall.
• REGULAR
  Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. (more info) 1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal;
• PLANET
  A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
• PLANETARIUM
  An orrery. See Orrery.
• PLANER TREE
  A small-leaved North American tree related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• DOORPLANE
  A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.
• UNEQUALNESS
  The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.