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Hexagon - A six sided and six angled polygon. Hex means 6.

Histogram - A graph that uses bars where each bar equals a range of values.

Hyperbola - One type of conic section. The hyperbola is the set of all points in a plane. The difference of whose distance from two fixed points in the plane is the positive constant.

Hypotenuse - The longest side of a right angled triangle. Always the side that's opposite of the right angle.

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