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six-sided

six-sided

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A shape or object with six sides
  • adjective
  • /sɪksˈsaɪdɪd/
translation icon : de seis lados
  • The odd numbers on a six sided die are one, three and five.
  • six-sided shape

You're fully immersed and it's actually so, so real that you move within the six sided cave for about two minutes.

Examples

  • It's clear, has a hardness of three and a six-sided crystal shape.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • It shows my gridded world population cartogram, including topographic and bathymetric details, and is reprojected onto a six-sided figure with square sides.

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  • The only changes are likely to be limited to the angular headlights and the six-sided grille.

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  • She bends down and looks intently into a large six-sided barrel.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • This is their regular Faber Casale and I really like the hexagonal barrel, the six sided barrel, not the round barrel.

  • It would combine three giant arches into a six-sided, snowflake-shaped superstructure located over the Gudenen River.

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  • A six-sided die can be used to play many board games.

  • Each snowflake has a unique six-sided shape formed by freezing water vapor.

  • The six-sided hex driver fits perfectly into the screws of the cabinet.

How Many Sides

ten-sided
3.9
eight-sided
1 2.7
six-sided
1 1.6
five-sided
1 3.2
four-sided
1 1.0
three-sided
1 1.5

Surface Forms

six-sided positive

Morphology

six-sided = six + side (transparent) = six + side + ed

The adjective is clearly formed from the numeral 'six' + 'side' with the adjectival suffix '-ed' meaning 'having sides', a straightforward, productive pattern.

Etymology

The word six-sided simply joins the number six and -sided, where side means 'a flat face of a shape'. Think of a common die with six faces, so six-sided means 'having six sides'.