Definitions for hexad

hexad hex·ad

Spelling: [hek-sad]
IPA: /ˈhɛk sæd/

Hexad is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in hexad (adehx).

Definitions for hexad

noun

  1. the number six.
  2. a group or series of six.

Origin of hexad

1650-60; Late Latin hexad- (stem of hexas) Greek hexad- (stem of hexás) unit of six, equivalent to héx six + -ad- -ad1

Examples for hexad

Here there is a plane of symmetry perpendicular to the hexad axis; there is also a centre of symmetry.

Perpendicular to the hexad axis are six dyad axes of two kinds and each perpendicular to a vertical plane of symmetry.

In crystals of this division of the hexagonal system the principal axis is a hexad axis of symmetry.

This is the hexad axis or hexagonal axis, for which the angle of rotation is 60, or one-sixth of 360.

The hexad axis is uniterminal and all the forms are open forms.

There can be only one hexad axis of symmetry in any crystal (see figs. 77-80).

Six planes of symmetry of two kinds intersect in the hexad axis.

Six dyad axes of two kinds are perpendicular to the hexad axis.

No other element is here associated with the hexad axis, which is uniterminal.

Word Value for hexad
Scrable

16

Words with friends

15

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