Definition of triangle

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Triangle (n.) 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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Scalene :: Scalene (n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
Equilateral :: Equilateral (a.) Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon..
Triquadrantal :: Triquadrantal (a.) Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles..
Subtense :: Subtend (v. t.) To extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc..
Octahedron :: Octahedron (n.) A solid bounded by eight faces. The regular octahedron is contained by eight equal equilateral triangles.
Acute-angled :: Acute-angled (a.) Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle..
Triangularly :: Triangularly (adv.) In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle.
Pyramid :: Pyramid (n.) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
Oxygon :: Oxygon (n.) A triangle having three acute angles.
Amblygon :: Amblygon (n.) An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle..
Cathetus :: Cathetus (n.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle..
Triangulate :: Triangulate (v. t.) To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured..
Cuproid :: Cuproid (n.) A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles..
Transversal :: Transversal (n.) A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced..
Cepheus :: Cepheus (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia..
Orthocenter :: Orthocenter (n.) That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect..
Pyramid :: Pyramid (n.) A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.
Incenter :: Incenter (n.) The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
Triangle :: Triangle (n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
Scalenohedron :: Scalenohedron (n.) A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle..
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