Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle.
- adj. Having a triangle for a base: a triangular pyramid.
- adj. Relating to or involving three entities, such as three people, objects, or ideas.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a triangle; consisting of a triangle.
- Three-cornered and three-sided; included within three sides and angles: as, a triangular plot of ground; a triangular building. Specifically in botany and zoology:
- Hence, of or pertaining to three independent things; three-sided as regards elements, interests, or parties: as, a triangular treaty.
- In heraldry, represented as solid and three-sided: thus, a triangular pyramid or a triangular pyramid reversed is a point or a pile which is divided by a line indicating a projecting edge, and is treated as if a solid seen in perspective.
- A dense fibrous membrane stretched across the subpubic arch on the deep surface of the crura of the penis and the bulb of the urethra. Also called deep perineal or subpubic fascia.
Wiktionary
- adj. Shaped like a triangle.
- adj. Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
- adj. Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
- adj. Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having three angles; having the form of triangle.
- adj. (Bot.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle
- adj. having three sides
Examples
“From its shape it is usually termed the triangular ligament, and is stretched almost horizontally across the pubic arch, so as to close in the front part of the outlet of the pelvis.”
“Procurement philosophy had been "triangular" - three possible sources for the same part, in case one was destroyed.”
“István Kulinyi’s has created this concept lamp that allows you to spin triangular pieces to change its appearance.”
“Mam called the triangular space “the pantry,” but our aunt had a real pantry, with windows and a glass door.”
“And that was for a measure – changing the tax treatment of so-called triangular mergers – affecting a relatively small number of transactions.”
“The acquisition will be the first major deal in Japan to use the so-called triangular-merger method, which became available in May.”
“The department said in a notice today that it will issue regulations that disallow so-called triangular reorganizations that attempt to escape tax when they send foreign earnings to a U.S. parent company....”
“If one thinks of the particles as pennies scattered upon a table, the pennies, when laterally compressed, would normally self-assemble into a pattern called a triangular lattice.”
“So my father bought a home in that so-called triangular complex.”
“The small triangular beard growing below the lower lip of the mask also recalls the triangular beard of the lion-head rhyton.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘triangular’.
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 410 more...
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9-16 letter words without E
abduction, abolitionist, abomination, actuality, addiction, administration, admission, ambiguous, anticlimactic, application, arachnophobia, arthropathy and 186 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Form Words
Words that mean the form of something. Like pyriform means pear-shaped
pyriform, napiform, plexiform, spherical, cubical, aciform, aeriform, triangular, fusiform, ensiform, rectangular, ramiform and 6 more...
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Kamtsatka's list
Miscellaneous words and phrases which have crossed my life.
miscellaneous, mousiké, spin-off, dismay, merry, tidings, reluctant, triangular, pi, hexadecimal, suomi, comfort and 23 more...
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