hex

IPA: hˈɛks

An evil spell or curse.
A witch.
(rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
A hexagonal space on a game board.
(climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
(computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal. [(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte, and thus a single byte can be represented conveniently with two digits.]
(chemistry) Clipping of uranium hexafluoride. [(chemistry) a binary compound of uranium and fluorine, UF₆; it is a grey solid, or heavy gas, and is used in the uranium enrichment process to produce fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear weapons]

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