What is "isosceles"

Usage examples of "isosceles".

The gleaming blade was a perfect isosceles triangle, five inches from handguard to point and two inches wide at the handguard.

A whole army of Polygons, who turned out to fight as private soldiers, was utterly annihilated by a superior force of Isosceles Triangles-- the Squares and Pentagons meanwhile remaining neutral.

He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later - for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal.

The thought flashed across me that I might have before me a burglar or cut- throat, some monstrous Irregular Isosceles, who, by feigning the voice of a Circle, had obtained admission somehow into the house, and was now preparing to stab me with his acute angle.

Then the Isosceles classes, asserting that the Specimens were no longer used nor needed, and refusing to pay the customary tribute from the Criminal classes to the service of Education, waxed daily more numerous and more insolent on the strength of their immunity from the old burden which had formerly exercised the twofold wholesome effect of at once taming their brutal nature and thinning their excessive numbers.

Brockwell Park - a huge, thrown-together isosceles of forest and grass with its apex at Herne Hill station -rambles for over a mile along the boundary of two very different parts of South London.

Let fall the perpendicular KQ, and by similar triangles, and from the fact that HKI is an isosceles triangle by the construction, it can be proved that HI is half of HB.

Of course, what he really wanted to do was to erect an isosceles triangle on a base of eleven miles, having two sides of twenty-one miles each.

I had noticed that whenever I built a fire, Ajor outlined in the air before her with a forefinger an isosceles triangle, and that she did the same in the morning when she first viewed the sun.

Jack's certainties had vanished an hour ago: his neat isosceles triangle had fled down the wind, routed by a thousand fresh unknown quantities.

It was an adult, as was known by its six rows of teeth placed in an isosceles triangle in the upper jaw.

It may have been pear-shaped when it was surveyed a couple of centuries ago, but erosion has changed it to an isosceles triangle.

And it was open and from where we were standing we could see the nose of the dead Mr Penrose rising from it like a pink sharks fin or an isosceles triangle of flesh, or in fact numerous other things of approximately the same shape.

Assuming that her estimate of forty-five degrees, at her first location, was close, and that she was directly over the stone 250 paces on, then the angle between stone, herself, and the first position was ninety degrees, and the original sight line was the hypotenuse of a right isosceles triangle.

America Shaftoe sits, jeaned and barefoot, in the blue light of a window, bobby pins sprouting from chapped lips, looking at her face in an isosceles triangle of mirror whose scalpel-sharp edges depress but do not cut the pink skin of her fingertips.