Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle.
- adjective Having a triangle for a base.
- adjective Relating to or involving three entities, such as three people, objects, or ideas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
- adjective (Bot.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles.
- adjective compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time.
- adjective (Zoöl.) any maioid crab; -- so called because the carapace is usually triangular.
- adjective (Math.) the series of numbers formed by the successive sums of the terms of an arithmetical progression, of which the first term and the common difference are 1. See Figurate numbers, under
Figurate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a
triangle . - adjective Of, or pertaining to,
triangles . - adjective Having a triangle as a
base ; as, a triangularprism , a triangularpyramid . - adjective Having three
elements orparties ;trilateral ,tripartite .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle
- adjective having three sides
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Examples
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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.
IV. Myology. 1F. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Perineum 1918
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Procurement philosophy had been "triangular" - three possible sources for the same part, in case one was destroyed.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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István Kulinyi’s has created this concept lamp that allows you to spin triangular pieces to change its appearance.
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Mam called the triangular space “the pantry,” but our aunt had a real pantry, with windows and a glass door.
dublin: tree-trimming James Claffey 2011
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And that was for a measure – changing the tax treatment of so-called triangular mergers – affecting a relatively small number of transactions.
Investing in Japan 2008
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The acquisition will be the first major deal in Japan to use the so-called triangular-merger method, which became available in May.
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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....
September 2006 2006
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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.
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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.
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So my father bought a home in that so-called triangular complex.
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