"megahex" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979 December 7, Brad McMilliam, “Some Spells for the Very Smart Sorcerer”, in The Dragon, number 32, page 18:",
          "text": "All creatures within five megahexes of the wizard will be thrown to the ground, and take one hit damage from cuts, bruises, and contusions.",
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          "ref": "1980 September-October, Paul King, “Cityfight”, in Phoenix, number 27, pages 7–10:",
          "text": "To avert this, hexes are grouped into 'sevens' to give large \"megahexes\", a unit can search it's [sic] own \"megahex\" or up to two \"megahexes\" away.",
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          "ref": "1989 September, Matthew J. Costello, “Neat Stuff”, in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction, volume 13, number 9, page 183:",
          "text": "If a Walker (fire power 6) shoots at a Rebel Trooper (Armor 2) one megahex away, the Imperial baddie has to roll 6 dice (for the firepower) minus 1 (for the one hex range).",
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        "(war game) A regular, quasi-circular polygon made up of multiple hexagons used to indicate a different scale, range, or area of effect on a hexagonal grid. Commonly used on maps for some tabletop war games and roleplaying games."
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          "ref": "2018 April-May, Ty Bomba, “The Luzon Campaign, 1945”, in World at War, number 59, page R1:",
          "text": "There's one irregular and over-sized \"mega hex\" on the map: the \"Shobu Group Base Area\" in west-central Luzon.",
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        "An irregular grouping of hexagons indicating a single area on hexagon-based game map."
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        "(rare) An irregular grouping of hexagons indicating a single area on hexagon-based game map."
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