Kuusikulmaisten

Kuusikulmaisten is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective kuusikulmainen, meaning hexagonal or related to a hexagon. It appears as the genitive plural form and is used to describe objects or shapes that have hexagonal properties, for example in phrases like kuusikulmaisten kuvioiden järjestys or kuusikulmaisten solujen rakenteet. The root reflects the combination of kuusi (six) and kulma (angle), with the suffix -inen indicating a characteristic, and -isten marking plural genitive.

In geometry, a hexagon is a polygon with six sides and six interior angles. A kuusikulmainen kuvio can refer to any six-sided figure, not necessarily regular. A regular kuusikulmainen polygon, or regular hexagon, has all sides equal and all interior angles equal to 120 degrees. The sum of interior angles in any hexagon is 720 degrees. Regular hexagons possess dihedral symmetry of order 12, corresponding to six rotations and six reflections, and they commonly tile the plane in a honeycomb-like pattern with equal-area cells.

The term appears in mathematics, design, architecture, and natural sciences when discussing hexagonal shapes or structures. In chemistry and crystallography, hexagonal rings and lattices are often described using kuusikulmainen or kuusikulmaiset terminology in Finnish literature. The plural genitive form kuusikulmaisten is typically used when attributing properties or relationships to multiple hexagonal items in a sentence.

See also: hexagon, hexagonal tiling, honeycomb, benzene ring, symmetry.