hexagon
The elegant stone building has an unusual hexagonal chimney.
Larger screws tend to have square or hexagonal bolt heads.
The hexagonal shaped pencil was developed as an alternative to the round pencil so it would not roll off the desk.

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Geometrical shapes
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congruently
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cylindrically
lozenge
ovally
ovoid
parallelogram
pentagon
polyhedron
polytope
prism
pyramid
pyramidical
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Examples of hexagonal

hexagonal
The squares are replaced by intermittent hexagonal patterns when the aspect ratio is increased.
This motion, of course, represents only one-sixth of a complete rotation of the hexagonal wheel.
The most natural way to do so is to take a system made up of two hexagonal planforms, one up and one down.
In contrast, a hexagonal convection does not possess this symmetry.
The flow appears t o be seeking a smaller hexagonal planform but is unable to make the transition.
For snow, no attempt is made to model the hexagonal crystal structure of the snow flake.
In the linear stability analysis we perturb the three rolls forming the hexagonal pattern with the same small wave number.
In this case a perfect hexagonal pattern, which is stable under symmetric perturbations, is perturbed asymmetrically.
The overwhelming majority of such molecules contain only hexagonal carbon rings.
As a rough guide to the size of a calculation, we count the number of hexagonal tiles in the substitution region.
Owing to the symmetry of the hexagonal substitution region, there is a substantial reduction in the number of different partition probability functions.
Three cases are considered, in which the meshes of the network are square, hexagonal or triangular.
For the black-white recordings, the stimulus consisted of 61 hexagonal elements.
This paper improves the upper bound for the hexagonal lattice site percolation critical probability.
They are again disposed on an irregular hexagonal lattice but the number of plumes is different and there is no reflection symmetry.
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