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单词 sexangular
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sexangularadj.

Brit. /sɛkˈsaŋɡjᵿlə/, U.S. /sɛkˈsæŋɡjələr/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sexangularis.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin sexangularis hexagonal (a1604) < classical Latin sexangulus (see sexangle n.) + -āris -ar suffix1. Compare earlier sexangled adj., sexangle n. Compare also earlier quadrangular adj., triangular adj., angular adj., etc.
Having six angles or corners; = hexagonal adj. 1a, 2.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adjective] > polygonal > hexagonal
sexangled1517
six-squarec1530
siseangled1557
hexagonal1571
hexagonian1598
sexangular1608
hexagonial1623
hexagonical1657
hexangle1657
sexangulary1658
hexangular1665
six-sided1693
sexagonal1750
hexagon1754
the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adjective] > two-dimensional > hexagonal
sexangled1517
six-squarec1530
siseangled1557
hexagonal1571
hexagonian1598
sexangular1608
hexagonial1623
hexagonical1657
sexangulary1658
hexangular1665
sexagonal1750
hexagon1754
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 94 If you eye well their [sc. hornets'] nestes, you shall finde them all for the most part exactly sexangular or sixe cornered.
1637 H. Wotton Will in I. Walton Life (1670) 71 A piece of Christal Sexangular, (as they grow all).
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra i. iii. §27 The known Figure of Nitre, is a Sexangular Prisme.
1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. xlix. 263 Alum..affords Crystals whose Top and Bottom are two sexangular Planes.
1832 N. Hawthorne in Token 91 The youth..drew from his pocket..a sexangular piece of parchment valued at three pence.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 344 Teeth sexangular.
1965 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 84 468 Cells subrectangular in outline, the semicell somewhat sexangular.
1986 P. Earnshaw Lace Machines & Machine Laces i. 21 Thomas Frost's square net..was not sexangular but ‘diamond-wise in squares’, each mesh having four equal sides.

Derivatives

seˈxangularly adv. rare in a sexangular manner.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [adverb] > other two-dimensional form
concentrically1647
pentagonally1658
sexangularly1681
octagonally1753
concentricly1818
the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adverb] > polygon > hexagon
sexangularly1681
hexagonally1727
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. iii. 35 Cancellated with little squares..on the top of the back, sexangularly.
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra i. iii. §21 Diamonds are often sexangularly pointed.
1956 Brit. Patent 755,622 1/2 Six flats arranged sexangularly at angles of 60 degrees to each other.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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