Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the figure of a hexahedron; having six equal superficial sides or faces; cubic.
- In entomology, having six distinct and more or less parallel sides; six-sided: said of long bodies, as joints of the antennæ, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective In the form of a hexahedron; having six sides or faces.
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- adjective having
six plane surfaces
Etymologies
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Examples
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The crystals of both are almost invariably regular hexahedral prisms, sometimes slightly modified.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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One of the masses of ice which he describes was crystallised in prisms of various numbers of sides: of these prisms the greater part were hexahedral and irregular.
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The French Encyclopædia [202] relates that M. Hassenfratz saw ice served up at table at Chambéry which broke into hexagonal prisms; and when he was shown the ice-houses where it was stored, he found considerable blocks of ice containing hexahedral prisms terminated by corresponding pyramids.
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They were hexahedral prisms, terminated with pyramids, fourteen lines long and eight thick.
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They were hexahedral prisms, terminated with pyramids, fourteen lines long and eight thick.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Models can now be meshed using a 'mosaic' mixture of prism, hexahedral and pyramidal element shapes
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Other enhancements include an innovative cutcell meshing feature that produces nearly all hexahedral elements on complex
ANSYS 13.0®: Built for Fidelity, Speed and Power - Yahoo! Finance 2010
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The electrostatic potential was computed using a hexahedral mesh with a grid space of 0.25 Å and the Debye-Hückel approximation to estimate the boundary conditions in the direction normal to the model membrane surface and periodic boundary conditions the membrane plane.
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Each structure was meshed with mixed hexahedral and tetrahedral elements.
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Patrin found long bundles of hexahedral tubes, the walls of which were formed of transverse needles: the diameter of these tubes was from two to six lines only, but at the lower extremities they opened out into hollow six-sided pyramids, more than an inch in diameter, so that the festoons, sometimes as large round as a man, presented terminal tufts of some feet in diameter, which glittered like diamonds under the influence of the torches.
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