Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, to be reassembled into different figures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square of wood or other material cut into seven pieces of various shapes (five triangles, a square, and a lozenge), which can be combined so as to form a square and a variety of other figures.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A Chinese
puzzle made of asquare that is cut up into differenttriangular pieces which can then bereassembled to makedesigns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I should say the name 'tangram' was probably invented by an American some little time before 1864 and after 1847, but I cannot find it in print before the 1864 edition of
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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On the appearance of this magazine article, the late Sir James Murray, the eminent philologist, tried, with that amazing industry that characterized all his work, to trace the word "tangram" to its source.
Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893
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Raytheon's MathMovesU invites visitors to create your own roller coaster, construct life-size tangram puzzles, relax in their Cyber Café and more.
Archive 2009-09-01 Alyssa Gardina 2009
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Raytheon's MathMovesU invites visitors to create your own roller coaster, construct life-size tangram puzzles, relax in their Cyber Café and more.
All Aboard for the State Fair! Alyssa Gardina 2009
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This is the best tangram puzzle game implementation on the iPhone.
iPhone Games I’ve Started to See in My Dreams | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2010
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The test is a tangram, forcing you to fit as many as needed of the pieces given into the shape of a rectangle.
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The column introduced the public to puzzles and concepts such as fractals and Chinese tangram puzzles, as well as the work of artist M.C. Escher.
Martin Gardner, Layman's Mathematician And Fierce Foe Of Pseudoscience, Dies At 95 2010
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The test is a tangram, forcing you to fit as many as needed of the pieces given into the shape of a rectangle.
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The sharp-witted column, packed with cultural references, humor and accessible logic puzzles instead of academic jargon, featured the mathematical concepts behind fractals, Chinese tangram puzzles, and the art of surrealist M.C. Escher.
Martin Gardner, 95, a journalist, provided in-depth analysis of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat 2010
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The sharp-witted column, packed with cultural references, humor and accessible logic puzzles instead of academic jargon, featured the mathematical concepts behind fractals, Chinese tangram puzzles, and the art of surrealist M.C. Escher.
Martin Gardner, 95, a journalist, provided in-depth analysis of Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat 2010
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