sexangle

English

Etymology

From Latin sexangulus (“sexangular”), from sex (“six”) + angulus (“angle”). Compare French sexangle and English hexangular.

Noun

sexangle (plural sexangles)

  1. (geometry, obsolete) A hexagon.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sexangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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