HONEYCOMB

Honeycomb

In geometry, a honeycomb is a space filling or close packing of polyhedral or higher-dimensional cells, so that there are no gaps. It is an example of the more general mathematical tiling or tessellation in any number of dimensions.

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honeycomb

Noun

  1. A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter.
  2. Any structure resembling a honeycomb.
    The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.
  3. voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles.
  4. Manufactured material used manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design.
  5. texturing the surface of a cell to increase its surface area and capture more sun.

Verb

  1. To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.
    Termites will honeycomb a porch made of untreated pine.


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