Hexapod may refer to:
Things with six limbs, e.g. a hexapod chair would have six not the traditional four limbs
Biology
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Hexapoda
The subphylum Hexapoda (from Greek for 'six legs') comprises most species of arthropods and includes the insects as well as three much smaller groups of wingless arthropods: Collembola, Protura, and Diplura (all of these were once considered ins ...
, a subphylum of arthropods including the insects
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Hexapodidae
Hexapodidae is a family of crabs, the only family in the superfamily Hexapodoidea. It has traditionally been treated as a subfamily of the family Goneplacidae, and was originally described as a subfamily of Pinnotheridae. Its members can be di ...
, a family of crabs
Technology
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Hexapod (robotics), a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs
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Stewart platform, a machine platform supported by six struts, used in robotics
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Hexapod-Telescope
The Hexapod-Telescope (HPT) is a telescope located at Cerro Armazones Observatory in northern Chile. The Ritchey-Chrétien reflecting telescope is notable for the design of the telescope mount. Instead of the typical mounting where the telesc ...
, a telescope in Chile mounted on a Stewart platform chassis frame
See also
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Tetrapod
Tetrapods (; ) are four-limbed vertebrate animals constituting the superclass Tetrapoda (). It includes extant and extinct amphibians, sauropsids ( reptiles, including dinosaurs and therefore birds) and synapsids ( pelycosaurs, extinct t ...
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Octopod
An octopus ( : octopuses or octopodes, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight- limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttl ...
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