hexagram

hexagram
hexagrammoid, adj., n.
/hek"seuh gram'/, n.
1. a six-pointed starlike figure formed of two equilateral triangles placed concentrically with each side of a triangle parallel to a side of the other and on opposite sides of the center.
2. Geom. a figure of six lines.
[1860-65; see HEXA-, -GRAM1]

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