scalene

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By division we may separate them into scalene, isosceles, and equilateral, or if we divide them according to a different principle into right and oblique triangles.

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  1. adjective Having three unequal sides. Used of triangles.

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  1. Late Latin scalēnus, from Greek skalēnos, from skallein, to hoe, stir up; see skel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French scalene, French scalène = Spanish escaleno = Portuguese escaleno, scaleno = Italian scaleno, from Latin scalenus, from Greek σκαληνός, uneven, unequal, odd, slanting, scalene, oblique (τρίγωνον σκαληνόν, a scalene triangle); prob. akin to σκολιός, crooked; σκελλός, crooked-legged; σκέλος, a leg.
 

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/skəˈlin/
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