TRIANGLE
\tɹˈa͡ɪaŋɡə͡l], \tɹˈaɪaŋɡəl], \t_ɹ_ˈaɪ__a_ŋ_ɡ_əl]\
Definitions of TRIANGLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a three-sided polygon
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any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
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something approximating the shape of a triangle; "the coastline of Chile and Argentina and Brazil forms two legs of a triangle"
By Princeton University
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a three-sided polygon
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any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
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An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.
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A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
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A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.
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A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.
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A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, - now disused.
By Oddity Software
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A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
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An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.
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A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
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A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.
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A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.
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A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, - now disused.
By Noah Webster.
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A plane figure bounded by three straight lines and having three angles; a musical instrument consisting of a steel rod bent in the form of a triangle, sounded by being struck.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(math.) A plane figure with three angles and three sides: (music) an instrument of steel in the form of a triangle.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] A figure bounded by three lines and containing three angles; –plane triangle, triangle in which the three lines or sides are right and straight; –equilateral triangle, triangle in which all the three sides are equal (fig.); –isosceles triangle, triangle in which two sides are equal; –scalene triangle, triangle in which all the three sides are unequal; –right-angled triangle, triangle having one angle a right angle; –obtuse-angled triangle, triangle having one obtuse angle; –acute-angled triangle, triangle in which all the angles are acute; –curvilinear triangle, triangle with curved lines or sides; –spherical triangle, triangle in which the sides are arcs of great circles of the sphere, or arcs of the same circle; –in the army, three halberts stuck in the ground and united at the top to which a soldier is tied when he is to be flogged; –in music, a bar of steel bent into the form of a triangle, and struck with a small rod.