WordUnscrambler Home
flexagon
Definitions
[], (Noun)
Definitions:
- Originally: a strip of paper marked with equilateral triangles, alternately upright and inverted and each typically decorated with a pattern or colour, which can be folded into the shape of a regular hexagon in a number of different ways; a hexagon made in this way, which can be manipulated to display different faces in different combinations. In later use also: any regular polygon made in this way.
Phrases:
Origin
:
1950s; earliest use found in Mathematical Gazette. Blend of flex and hexagon
Click here to see the free dictionary definition for flexagon
definition by Oxford Dictionaries