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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having all angles equal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In geometry, having all the angles equal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having equal angles
  • adjective (Math.) See under Spiral, n.
  • adjective applied to two figures, when every angle of the one has its equal among the angles of the other.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective geometry Of a polygon, having all interior angles equal. This is not necessarily a regular polygon, since that would also be equilateral; a rectangle is equiangular but not equilateral, unless it is a square.

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  • adjective having all angles equal

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  • Its spiral form is known as an equiangular spiral.

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  • A square is distinguished from other polygons by being four-sided, equilateral, and equiangular.

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  • For example, if all the equilateral triangles are all the equiangular, we know at once that all non-equilateral triangles are also non-equiangular.

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  • Ah! you're found out, you _rectilineal antecedent_, and _equiangular_ old hag!

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  • We may have a division consisting of mutually exclusive members, which yet involves a mixture of different bases, e.g. if we were to divide triangle into scalene, isosceles and equiangular.

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  • In well-formed subjects, the anterior space is equiangular, the base being equal to each side; but according as the tuberosities approach the median line, the base becomes narrowed, and the triangle is thereby rendered acute.

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  • Thus it is as true to say that 'All equiangular triangles are equilateral' as that 'All equilateral triangles are equiangular.'

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  • For instance, in the particular case of equilateral triangles it is true to say, not only that 'all equilateral triangles are equiangular,' but also that 'all equiangular triangles are equilateral.'

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  • Thus all equilateral triangles are equiangular triangles; but in one case they are named from the equality of their angles, and in the other from the equality of their sides.

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