honeycomb

Just as magnetic interactions can be frustrated in certain lattice structures, these dimers can also face restrictions in geometries such as triangular lattices or honeycomb networks.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026

Would it be bamboo charcoal memory foam, a C-shaped full body or a honeycomb hole?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, in a vehicle optimized for precisely that purpose, the legs, designed with a crushable honeycomb interior, were supposed to contract.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025

In Australia, First Graphene says it has found a way to slow the spread of fire in plastics by adding graphene – tiny flakes of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattices.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

Rooms which should contain other passengers in stasis, instead hold walls of hexagon bed tubes puzzled together like a honeycomb.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The “last grizzly killed” has several claimants: In Orange County, it was in February 1908, when a huge steel trap was laid for a bear that had been stealing honeycombs from hives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

For instance, hexagons appear frequently in nature -- think honeycombs and insect eyes -- because they are stable and require the least amount of material to cover a surface.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024

The video shows the plane gliding gently over the honeycombs of buildings dotting brown-green fields, before the man filming it turns the camera around and smiles.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023

She never kicked up her feet and enjoyed honeycombs on a Saturday afternoon.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022

She would climb to the tops, as nimble as a spider, and then send the honeycombs down in baskets on ropes for Xan to catch.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The valley above Hood River is honeycombed with farms that have also become destinations where one can handpick fruit, snack outside on picnic tables and bring the dog.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

Instead, he said, the card was probably issued because Putin and his colleagues were granted routine access to Stasi facilities that honeycombed Dresden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

The resulting porous crystal structure is so fully honeycombed with pockets that a chunk the size of a sugar cube can contain several football fields’ worth of internal surface area.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2021

There is no question that building on tidal wetlands and permeable limestone honeycombed by seawater is problematic.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021

Already the edges of the ice where the waves struck were honeycombed and streaked with yellow.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes.

From Time Magazine Archive

There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

They saw shadowy caves along the way, and tunnels honeycombing the cliff every which way.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

In the rusticated space that fills the sides, quaint sculptures of monsters and birds of foreign plumage may, or rather might have been traced, the honeycombing by weather has made them almost undiscoverable.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould