A hexagonal wine-glass pulpit rising on its slender stem is surmounted by a hexagonal canopy.
If our specimen be large and perfect, we note that it is bounded by planes in such manner that we have a hexagonal prism terminated at either end by a hexagonal pyramid.
The columns, roughly hexagonal and weathered to a dull-red, stood above in sheer perpendicular lines of six hundred and sixty feet in altitude.
When low temperatures were the rule, small, plain, hexagonal stars or spicules fell.
Occasionally one would see beautiful complicated patterns in the form ofhexagonal flakes.
Checking in some climates appears to proceed rapidly on white lead paints, in a deep hexagonal form, leaving a series of rough crests and cracks.
The type of checking existing was also distinct in its structure, being hexagonal in shape.
The shafts supporting the vault are alternatelyhexagonal and circular.
Each consists of an octagonal pier in the centre, with crockets running up four of its sides; these are protected by four circular shafts of Purbeck marble, which stand before them and alternate with hexagonal fluted shafts.
The hexagonalstone structure at the north-east corner, with a pyramidal roof, covers the minster well.
It crystallizes in rhombohedra belonging to the hexagonal system, having interfacial angles of 87 deg.
The substance is usually optically isotropic, though sometimes it exhibits anomalous double refraction; fibrous zinc sulphide which is doubly refracting is to be referred to the hexagonal species wurtzite.
Similarly, it cannot be spherical and hexagonal at the same time.
Simultaneously also you can conceive a hexagonal form.
Where the bottom is reached, the furrows are replaced by a sort of mosaic pavement of hexagonal repeating figures, each of which may be an area of the surface six feet or more across (Fig.
Another way of expressing this fact is that the table should cross the long axis of the usual hexagonal crystal of sapphire, at right angles.
Again, in some sapphires and rubies are found minute, probably hollow, tube-like cavities, arranged in three sets in the same positions as the transverse axes of the hexagonal crystal.
The trefoil is closely connected with hexagonal designs, since the regular hexagon is formed from the inscribed equilateral triangle by doubling the number of sides.
The quartz crystal, an hexagonal pyramid on an hexagonal prism, is found in many parts of the country, or is to be seen in the school museum, and this also forms an interesting object of study in this connection.
The measurement of the regular hexagon, given one side, may be used in computing sections of hexagonal columns, in finding areas of flower beds, and in other similar cases.
The ice is in thin layers on the stones, and is deposited in the form of clear and regular hexagonal crystals.
It was perfectly clear, and disposed inhexagonal prisms, separating readily at the natural joints.
Fannes old style" would apply to those built on a half-hexagonal section.
The Forlorn Hope lay in a hexagonal park, and near it the Titanian globe had also come to rest.
Then our first impulse would be to put a square or hexagonal stone on the top of the shaft, projecting as far beyond it as might be safely ventured; as at a, Fig.
But," he added desperately, "there's the hexagonalscarab beetle.
In the churches of the third stage of architecture, these stairs were often inclosed in a towering hexagonal mahogany structure, which was ornamented with pillars and panels.
With four lights: having spiral branches on tripod column with claw feet, standing on hexagonal base.
They had hoof feet, claw and ball feet, were perforated in their designs, were oval or hexagonal in shape, adopting in turn the classic festoons of the Adam period, and the godrooning of the tureen of the late George III massive style.
With five lights: onhexagonal base with claw feet.
The bees, of course, no more knowing that they swept their spheres at one particular distance from each other, than they know what are the several angles of the hexagonal prisms and of the basal rhombic plates.
The coffin is a hexagonal piece of wood made out of a log with a three-faced lid also hewn out of a log.
The coffin is a hexagonalreceptacle hewn out of a log,[31] and provided with a truncated prism lid of the same wood.
Or is that which prompts the bee to build hexagonal prisms in the middle of her comb something of an actually distinct character from that which impels her to build pentagonal ones at the sides?
The hexagonal cupola was finished in 1264, four years after Montaperti and the year before Dante's birth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hexagonal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
