Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of being triangular; triangular form.

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

  • noun The quality or state of being triangular.

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  • noun The state or quality of having the shape of a triangle.

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  • noun the property of being shaped like a triangle

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Examples

  • There are some clear cases: fragility, solubility, irrascibility are dispositions, while massiveness and triangularity seem to be non-dispositional, or categorical.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • Take an allegedly paradigmatic non-dispositional property: triangularity.

    Dispositions Fara, Michael 2006

  • It is found that in addition to suitable elongation, large triangularity has advantage for arriving at high beta value and obtaining high fusion power output

    Think Progress » New Woodward Book Details Multiple Bush Cover-Ups Over Iraq 2006

  • Obviously, what is wanted is a description according to which the brownness “goes with” the squareness, and the greenness “goes with” the triangularity.

    The Problem of Perception Crane, Tim 2005

  • Far out on the water a shape could be seen, a hint of triangularity speaking of Foam Dancer's lateen sail.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • Far out on the water a shape could be seen, a hint of triangularity speaking of Foam Dancer's lateen sail.

    Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

  • To explain the inheritance of evil, if not its cosmic importance, Augustine devised the theory that all mankind was included in Adam as particulars are included in a universal, even as triangles — equilateral, scalene, and isosceles — are in - cluded in the concept of triangularity.

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • He saw the gap opening and widening between her central upper incisors, and the way her hair knotted and plaited itself into medusas, and the strange triangularity of her profile, which sloped outwards from her hairline to the tip of her nose, swung about and headed in an unbroken line inwards to her neck.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • On this last, however, it may be remarked that triangularity and quadrangularity are not in themselves qualities, but there is quality when a thing is triangular by having been brought to that shape; the quality is not the triangularity but the patterning to it.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • But triangularity is a quality of that in which it is present; it is however no longer triangularity as such, but the triangularity present in that definite object and modified in proportion to its success in shaping that object.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

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