hypotenuse

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Now if we build up a square on each side of the triangle, the squares on AB and BC will together be exactly equal to the square on the long side AC, which we call the hypotenuse.

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  • That would spare me the awkwardness of bumping into a hypotenuse or worse. —  Question Quest
  • The hypotenuse was enormously fat, with a huge mouth that opened into a triangle. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • The hypotenuse was big and blubbery with a triangular-shaped orifice; the relevant was even larger, with a nose that dangled to the ground; and the parody was a bird that liked crackers. —  Golem in the Gears
  • She sounded patient, like a school ma'am trying to point out to a blockheaded sophomore that the square of the hypotenuse was equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. —  157 - Terror And The Lonely Widow
  • I feel like the dumb kid in the class who has to keep asking the teacher to remind him what a hypotenuse is. —  The Boar's Head Tavern
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  1. Latin hypotēnūsa, from Greek hupoteinousa, from feminine present participle of hupoteinein, to stretch or extend under : hupo-, hypo- + teinein, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European roots.
 

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/hajˈpɑt, hajˈpɑθɛnjus/
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