triangle
IPA: trˈaɪæŋgʌɫ
noun
- (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
- (US, Canada) A set square.
- (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
- (cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- A love triangle.
- (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- (historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
- The area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.
- Ellipsis of Bermuda Triangle. [An area in the Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes have disappeared under allegedly mysterious circumstances.]
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Examples of "triangle" in Sentences
- Draw the rectangle inside the triangle.
- The standard describes the fraud triangle.
- Each triangle has a square on its hypotenuse.
- The only equiangular triangle is the equilateral triangle.
- The medial triangle is the pedal triangle of the circumcenter.
- Ideally, the hoop should be on the lower triangle of the X shape.
- It is the pedal triangle of the orthocenter of the original triangle.
- The furnace is shaped like an equilateral triangle with rounded corners.
- In other words, the triangle and square in the following diagram commute.
- He doodled a triangle shaped child on the butcher paper covering the table.
- CHECK OUT THE JACOB BARBIE! www. people.com: And the love triangle is complete!
- Somewhere in the Dolores-Guanajuato-San Miguel triangle is an another obvious choice.
- The Moslems, I am told, cut three locks – a triangle is a favourite Moslem tattoo pattern.
- Because when I go out on head coaching interviews and if I mention the word 'triangle,' it makes general managers and owners cringe.
- Which I understand the temptation, the fight will be more entertaining to watch, but the love triangle is also very central to the book.
- County Administrator Will Johnson suggested they only do what they call the triangle, which excludes a portion of the north part of the county.
- After a long series of experiments, guided by his ideas of the genesis of geometric figures, Séguin became aware that the triangle is the figure most easily drawn.
- The relationship advice on the love triangle is actually a very productive way to counter some of the negative things that many people have to say about the Twilight Saga.
- For example, three Woolworths sites around Birmingham form an exact equilateral triangle (Wolverhampton, Lichfield and Birmingham stores) and if the base of the triangle is extended, it forms a 173.8 mile line linking the Conway and Luton stores.
- Locke, that it is as inconceivable that the entity known to us as Matter should possess the property of causing thought as it is that the figure which we term a triangle should posses the property of containing more than two right angles, still it remains, for the purposes of Locke's supposed theistic demonstration, to prove that it is an inconceivable for the entity which we call Mind _not_ to be due to another Mind, as it is for a triangle
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