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  • noun Plural form of hypotenuse.

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Examples

  • Rock stars don't spend their afternoons dissecting thesis statements and figuring out hypotenuses!

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • Enormously steep hypotenuses he proposed, yet still he could not satisfactorily prove the difficulty.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Rock stars don't spend their afternoons dissecting thesis statements and figuring out hypotenuses!

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • Enormously steep hypotenuses he proposed, yet still he could not satisfactorily prove the difficulty.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Rock stars don't spend their afternoons dissecting thesis statements and figuring out hypotenuses!

    Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002

  • Only the fact that we could fly up out of them saved us, and even that was chancy because an evil cloud moved in and made a storm, forcing us to remain for several cold wet hours on the swampy ground with encroaching allegories and hypotenuses and other dangerous creatures.

    Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991

  • Only the fact that we could fly up out of them saved us, and even that was chancy because an evil cloud moved in and made a storm, forcing us to remain for several cold wet hours on the swampy ground with encroaching allegories and hypotenuses and other dangerous creatures.

    Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991

  • He placed the paper triangles side by side on the table, with their hypotenuses touching, so that they formed a kite-shaped figure.

    Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

  • He placed the paper triangles side by side on the table, with their hypotenuses touching, so that they formed a kite-shaped figure.

    Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

  • For instance, any courses you sail like these will be the hypotenuses of a series of right-angled triangles.

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

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