scalene

IPA: skˈeɪɫin

noun

  • (anatomy) Ellipsis of scalene muscle.. [(anatomy) Any of usually three deeply situated muscles on each side of the neck of which each extends from the transverse processes of two or more cervical vertebrae to the first or second rib.]
  • (trigonometry) Ellipsis of scalene triangle.. [(geometry) A triangle having each of its three sides of different lengths.]

adjective

  • (trigonometry) Having sides all unequal in length.
  • (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscle.
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Examples of "scalene" in Sentences

  • June 23, 2008 at 12:19 pm yu is scalene gnu hyts wiv tehse puns!
  • Overhead, a jigsaw puzzle of scalene triangles zigs and zags along the ceiling.
  • How can anyone say that a scalene and an equilateral are really the same "kind"!
  • In essence, it does because it contains the vital antioxidants scalene, flavonoids, and polyphenols at a minimum.
  • Below, the earth is platted into odd geometrical shapes: scalene triangles and parallelograms of umber, dun and ochre.
  • When Owen closed his eyes, he could see them doing it, one blonde and the other red-headed, climbing up and down walls in faultless scalene triangles, counting every step.
  • The real elements are two triangles, the rectangular isosceles which has but one form, and the most beautiful of the many forms of scalene, which is half of an equilateral triangle.
  • The faces of the first three of these are composed of equilateral triangles, and each face is itself composed of six elemental (scalene) half equilateral right-angled triangles, whose sides are in a proportion of
  • The triangle as such has three angles (a constitutive property), it has three sides (a consecutive property, one that is somehow included in the object's constitutive properties), but it is neither scalene nor non-scalene, neither green nor non-green etc.

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