Hexagon

Hexagon (Gr. hex, 'six,' and gōnia, 'angle'), a figure of six sides and six angles; when the sides and angles are equal it is called a regular hexagon. Of the three figures which can completely occupy space (the equilateral triangle, square, and hexagon) the hexagon contains the greatest area within a given perimeter, the proportions between the three different figures being nearly as the numbers 4, 5½, 6. It is thus that bees, by making their cells of a hexagonal form, enclose the greatest space with the least expenditure of wax. See BEES.