Triangular
[traɪ'æŋgjʊlə] or [traɪ'æŋgjəlɚ]
Definition
(adj.) having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle; 'a triangular figure'; 'a triangular pyrimid has a triangle for a base' .
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Definition
(a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
(a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
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Examples
- There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It ad dressed itself to actual problems, such as determining the area of a square or triangular field from the length of the sides. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It had open guard fingers, a knife made of triangular sections, reciprocating in the guard, and a cutter-bar on a hinged frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Holmes walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- As though a lunatic should trust in the world's coming triangular! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The cutter-bar had fixed triangular cutters between each of which was a movable vibrating cutter, which made a shear cut against the edge of the stationary cutter, on each side. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The board, according to red Martian custom, was triangular, for there were three in our family. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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