Crossword clues for equilateral
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Equilateral \E`qui*lat"er*al\, a. [L. aequilateralis; aequus equal + latus, lateris, side: cf. F. ['e]quilat['e]ral.] Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon.
Equilateral hyperbola (Geom.), one whose axes are equal.
Equilateral shell (Zo["o]l.), one in which a transverse line drawn through the apex of the umbo bisects the valve, or divides it into two equal and symmetrical parts.
Mutually equilateral, applied to two figures, when every side of the one has its equal among the sides of the other.
Equilateral \E`qui*lat"er*al\, n. A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others; also, a figure of equal sides.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context geometry English) Referring to a polygon all of whose sides are of equal length. Not necessarily a regular polygon since the angles can still differ (a regular polygon would also be equiangular). alt. (context geometry English) Referring to a polygon all of whose sides are of equal length. Not necessarily a regular polygon since the angles can still differ (a regular polygon would also be equiangular). n. An equilateral triangle
WordNet
adj. having all sides or faces equal
Wikipedia
Equilateral can refer to:
- Equilateral polygon, in geometry
- Equilateral triangle, in geometry
- Equilateral dimension of a metric space, in mathematics
- Equilateral triathlon, in which each leg would take an approximately equal time
Usage examples of "equilateral".
She then applied the plane generated by taking the seventh angle cosecant of a trisected cone that had been created from a five dimensionally rotated equilateral right triangle-impossible without awareness of ireality mathematics-and then combined the resulting geometric paradox to the chronowarp.
And, of course, that if an equilateral pentagon be inscribed in a circle, the square on the side of the pentagon is equal to the squares on the side of the hexagon and on that of the decagon inscribed in the same circle!
Beginning from the bottom on the left-hand side, there was a dot - it was too neatly circular to be accidental - a flat-topped equilateral triangle, a pentagon and then a heptagonal figure.
Vnto which enclosure when wee came, I founde it equilaterall, with three fences like a streight wall, as high as the Cyprus Trees vpon either sides of the waye, that wee had passed along in: which was altogither of Cytrons, Orenges and Lymonds, bushing with their leaues one within an other, and artifitially knitte and twisted togither, and the thicknes mee thought of sixe foote: with a Gate in the middest of the same Trees, so wel composed as is either possible to bee thought or done.
Blazing Star, or HORUS, and the three form the great Equilateral Triangle, in the centre of which is the omnific letter of the Kabalah, by which creation is said to have been effected.
Waldeck found near Palenque two pyramids in a state of perfect preservation, square at the base, pointed at the top, and thirty-one feet high, their sides forming equilateral triangles.
If all we have are sense-perceptions and images derived from sense, then we can never be aware of anything but a particular triangle, one that is either isosceles, scalene, or equilateral, one that has a certain size or area, one the lines of which are either black or of some other color, and so on.
The Phoenix Exultant carried factories for the nucleogenesis of antimatter, in volume and output as large as any dozen of the antimatter-production facilities orbiting near Mercury Equilateral.
Triangle, equilateral, one of the symbols of Chinese Mysteries, 429-m.
The Militia of the Equilaterals was at once called out, and every Triangle suspected of Irregularity on reasonable grounds, was destroyed by Court Martial, without the formality of exact measurement by the Social Board.
Mantell flashed off the screen again, replaced by an image of the three distorted starships, now in formation at the points of an equilateral triangle.
Set them at the points of an equilateral polygon and give them equal angular velocities about their center of mass.
Resembling an enormous metal brick, the edifice sat back from the road with a fifteen-foot-tall, neon, equilateral cross glowing over its facade.
Resembling an enormous metal brick, the edifice sat back from the road with a fifteenfoottall, neon, equilateral cross glowing over its facade.
These fit together and form a perfect equilateral triangle, as shown in the second diagram.