sexkantig

Sexkantig is a Swedish adjective meaning six‑sided, derived from sex (six) and kant (edge). In geometry it describes polygons with six straight sides; in other contexts it may be used for hexagonal shapes. A hexagon is a polygon with six sides. The sum of its interior angles is 720 degrees. A regular hexagon has six equal sides and six equal angles of 120 degrees. It can be partitioned into six equilateral triangles. The area of a regular hexagon with side length a is (3√3/2) a^2; the distance between opposite sides (the width across flats) is √3 a, and the distance between opposite vertices (the diameter) is 2a. Hexagons may be convex or concave.

Regular hexagons tile the plane without gaps, a property seen in honeycombs and in certain crystal lattices. In chemistry, the benzene ring is a hexagon. In crystallography and materials science, hexagonal arrangements and sixfold symmetry are common, and terms like hexagonal are used to describe related structures.

In Swedish usage, sexkantig is standard for describing six‑sided objects and is the direct translation of “six‑sided” into everyday language; in English the equivalent adjectives are hexagonal or six‑sided.