Definition of triangle

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Triangle (n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

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Incenter :: Incenter (n.) The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
Right-angled :: Right-angled (a.) Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle..
Cathetus :: Cathetus (n.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle..
Tetrahedron :: Tetrahedron (n.) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.
Triangle :: Triangle (n.) An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod..
Trilateral :: Trilateral (a.) Having three sides; being three-sided; as, a trilateral triangle..
Birectangular :: Birectangular (a.) Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle..
Triangle :: Triangle (n.) A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.
Self-conjugate :: Self-conjugate (a.) Having the two things that are conjugate parts of the same figure; as, self-conjugate triangles..
Scalenohedron :: Scalenohedron (n.) A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle..
Circumcenter :: Circumcenter (n.) The center of a circle that circumscribes a triangle.
Chorograph :: Chorograph (n.) An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc..
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle..
Kathetal :: Kathetal (a.) Making a right angle; perpendicular, as two lines or two sides of a triangle, which include a right angle..
Side :: Side (n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc..
Orthocenter :: Orthocenter (n.) That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect..
Scalene :: Scalene (n.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
Equivalent :: Equivalent (a.) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle..
Triangulation :: Triangulation (n.) The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them..
Pentacle :: Pentacle (n.) A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages..
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